Reçueçn Sports Newswires

by **Recuecn** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 6:33 pm

RNFL Season Four

Matchdays 1 through 10

Matchday 1

Bayern Heidelberg, Zimmerich FC, and Ville-Sur-Rivière all win their games today with varying levels of comfortability: Heidelberg squeak past Hamwich one-nil, while Ville put five past Puits Tunnellers. This keeps our three-way tie for first place alive, while Écho SC is only one point out. Elsewhere, the Alpine Armageddon also get destroyed by Hanting, and the Reçueçn Raptors somehow beat Slynwell, to the delight of their fans.

The whistle blows, and it's kickoff on the First League's First Matchday! This hasn't happened since before the collapse of the RNFL, so back sometime around WC 73 or something. Wow, that really sounds longer ago than it feels like--and it feels like it's been years, despite the fact that a quick look at the players will show that it's still all the same people and they're still all the same ages. What's the opposite of the saying, "time flies when you're having fun?" It's like time stands still when there's no domestic football here.

Haha, a little joke. Anyway, Reçueçn FC, title favorites, start off on the right foot with a three-nil win over Associated Savoie. Gerauld Firaut marks a clean sheet to start off the season, but he doesn't have to work too hard to accomplish that, as Savoie's attack struggles to get past Reçueçn FC's back line. It's Jack Woodard, Reçueçn FC's center-forward, who opens up the scoring for the game, and scores the first goal in the league--he takes a chance with a long shot five minutes in and finds the back of the net.

The most impressive scoreline is Bonneville Sporting scoring a five-zero shutout against Renting ASC, who had to have been hoping for a better start to the new season. Asurdi Balinaga--who odds are, you've never heard of--scores a hat trick. It's early for sure, but Bonneville will probably be looking to extend his contract when it expires in a year.

Matchday 2

Of the teams at the top, only Ville-sur-Rivière gets away with a win this time, putting them out in front, if only by two points. Puits Tunnellers' form continues to be abyssmal. Cinizio gets only their second win of the season in an exciting four-three battle with Canting-Aexwell, who fall below them to 19th.

It's the second day of the season, and already the most important game of the year is here: "Le Classique," when Reçueçn FC and Association Genève, arch-rivals, face off. This one is hosted in Reçueçn, and a sold-out crowd at Carl III Stadium cheers their team on to a one goal win over Geneva. Firaut scores another clean sheet, stopping every shot by his RNFT teammates, Saunders, Franky, and LeClair. Geneva fans, meanwhile, are left lamenting not only a loss to their most hated rivals, but also a weak start to the season--1 point in two games is not good for a team of their caliber. They'll need to make that up next week.

Renwyll, who they tied last week, achieve wonders: a seven to one victory over Bonneville Sporting, who themselves are nothing to laugh at (remember they scored five last week). Guillaume Delafosse, Bonneville's manager, somehow doesn't actually have a backup keeper to call into action, so it looks like Niko Rehberg, confidence shattered, will be in net for the foreseeable future.

Matchday 3

It's the Reçueçn Raptors, of all the teams, that beats Ville-Sur-Rivière and knocks them out of first place. Sporting Saint-Carl is happy; with a convincing win over Slynwell they take the lead. There's not too many other surprises--maybe Cinizio managing to hold Écho SC to a two-two draw.

Association Genève loses again this week, making their weak start official. They're now 13th in the league (out of 16), meaning they're only one spot out of relegation. Obviously that's a long ways away, but it would be a huge scandal were that to happen... Interestingly, Geneva Lake-Side is doing even worse than their bigger cross-town counterparts--losing to Itrino three-one today means they still haven't managed to get a single point in the standings. There's some other fun games to watch this week as well: Heldingen and Arly both win three goals to none, over Harrim FC and Tyvania, respectively, while Annedine Sporting scores two goals and a clean sheet each against Associated Savoie. The only particularly boring game is Col-De-Môse playing out a scoreless draw with Renting ASC. There's not many chances for either side, and the stadium is mostly empty by the time the final whistle blows.

Matchday 4

The surprise this week is Canting-Aexwell scoring five goals to Hanting FC's one. Benjamin Couvreur scores a hat trick on Mike Rehder, Hanting's goalie, and rips off his shirt in celebration. He hasn't thought ahead and doesn't have a second jersey handy--Burt Renalds, his coach, has to sub him off. It's the most exciting moment in the league this week. Not too much else of note happens.

Association Genève lose again, which means they're now last in the league. Geneva Lake-Side and Renting ASC tie each other, and Tyvania gets a victory, so all three teams pass Genève. Tyvania brings down Heldingen, last season's champions, along the way. Heldingen hasn't been doing too badly so far: they're only two points out of first place. But in fact, with only four games played, that's pretty meaningless. More than half the teams are still within a game of the title spot.

The other thing to point out here is that Harrim FC defeats Itrino six-one. It's Matthäus Behrend who draws the attention in this game--"only" two goals, but he also keeps dropping back to the midfield and creating wonderful attacking opportunities for his teammates. An eye-catching performance for sure.

Matchday 5

The top of the table is still very tight--three teams within a point of first, with three more only a game back from there. The Puits Tunnellers Alpine Armageddon annual grudge-match takes place this week, and the Armageddon carry the day in a two-one win. They take the winning lead with fully half an hour left in the game, but struggle to look convincing as they finish it out. After all, neither of these two teams are particularly great.

And they've done it! It's taken more than a month, but Association Genève finally records their first win of Season 4, a two-one fight with Arly that isn't as convincing as it should be. Franky scores both the goals for his team, which is as many as the entire team had scored in the season this far.

Anyone not a Genève fan, however, is tuning in to the Chapel-Field House game as soon as they hear about what's going on: three red cards are given out (Bernard Wellington for Chapel-Field House and Earl Randall and Damien Jennings for Stomford), so it's ten on nine, and both teams' defenses start to fall apart. The final score is seven to four, which is frankly ridiculous. Everyone watches this bloodbath happen, and within hours of its end it's been dubbed "Stomford's Stomping". It's all anyone can talk about for a week.

Matchday 6

It's not a good day for Écho SC fans--they lose, but not only do they lose, they lose to Ville-Sur-Rivière, meaning they fall ever further back. The game is a close one, but Tristan Kempf slots one through at the near post just before full time.

Another nice week with nothing crazy. Stomford haven't recovered enough to win, but they put up a respectable showing in their three-one defeat to Col-De-Môse, at least making them fight for the goals. Reçueçn FC is hosting another Geneva team this week, whom they also welcome by scoring on right off the bat--Roméo Jacquard scores in the second minute. Geneva never recover and look shaky for the rest of the game, although they only give up one more goal. Association Genève take another loss too. It seems their scoring has entirely dried up: normally they're strong on the attack but here somehow it's their sixth game and they've only scored nine goals total. Franky is putting on shades after the matches now and refusing to talk to paparazzi.

Matchday 7

Bayern Heidelberg accomplish a five-goal shutout against Ramton, which is impressive, but not as impressive as Zimmerich FC scoring five against Sporting Saint-Carl. Nick Seck, Zimmerich's manager, is ecstatic at his press conference. "You can see our attacking drive is paying off. It's easy to score goals against some teams, but being able to repeatedly do so against an opponent of Saint-Carl's caliber is a promising thing in this league, especially if we can control the ball the whole time and only concede a single goal in the meantime. If we keep playing like this I can assure the fans we'll be back up in the First League next year."

Heldingen and Renwyll face off this week. Both teams are common UICA competitors, so it's a big game, but it's more one-sided than ticket-holders expected. Renwyll's Truman Behling lets in four goals and his teammates don't score any. Reçueçn FC are now first in the league with eighteen points in seven games. Not bad. They're also a game clear of any competition, for now. Things are tighter at the bottom.

Speaking of the bottom, I know I keep mentioning it, but it's crazy that Association Genève only has five points. They ought to be in second.

Matchday 8

Zimmerich FC does it again in a breathless six-five game against Ville-Sur-Rivière. Zimmerich is please with their game--they won, they got the three points, and it was a great game for their fans. Ville-Sur-Rivière is obviously upset: one would hope to win any game where you score five goals. It's the neutral parties who point out that the attacking philosophy has gone too far here--one should expect to lose any game where you concede five goals, and happening to win is just lucky.

Finally a win for Genève, because I'm getting tired of talking about them losing, and I'm going to have to stop mentioning them. For now it's worth saying that Bonneville Sporting is a good team and they put up a good fight, so it's a good sign if Geneva can beat them. It was a fun game to watch.

An even more fun game is Reçueçn FC hosting Heldingen; two more strong teams, and boy do they put on a show. The final score is four to three, which means Gerauld Firaut has let in more goals here than he has in the entire season to date. His teammates are happy with him anyway--after all, they've won--but it's clear as the tv cameras zoom in on his face that he's disappointed with himself and beating himself up over it. Here's a man who takes his job seriously.

Matchday 9

A lot of high scoring games again this week, but this time all the teams getting stomped on are ones you would expect given their opponents, with the possible exception of Actwell, who despite losing six to two against Ville-Sur-Rivière this time around still have a winning record.

Five of the eight games end one-nil this week, which is a bit more like the Reçuecian soccer we all know and love. Well, Reçuecians love it, somehow. It's a bit hard for others to fathom how they get so excited by Luc Pélissier scoring in the forty-third minute and then his team parking the bus for the entire second half. But that's tradition, and that's exactly what happens here as he leads Heldingen to their win over Stomford. It's essentially the same storyline in Itrino, Harrim, Renting, and Col-De-Môse, although not all the hosts wind up on the winning side.

Matchday 10

Second League                 Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Ville-Sur-Rivière           18   12   4   2    46   24  +22    40
 2 Bayern Heidelberg           18   12   3   3    34   12  +22    39
 3 Zimmerich FC                18   12   1   5    41   26  +15    37
 4 Hamwich FC                  18   10   5   3    27   18   +9    35
 5 Sporting Saint-Carl         18   10   4   4    42   28  +14    34
 6 Écho SC                     18    9   4   5    25   18   +7    31
 7 Hoping FC                   18    7   7   4    31   26   +5    28
 8 Actwell                     18    7   6   5    41   34   +7    27
 9 Hanting FC                  18    7   5   6    32   28   +4    26
10 Lampadaires Associated      18    6   6   6    23   25   −2    24
11 Boruncia                    18    6   6   6    33   36   −3    24
12 Slynwell                    18    5   5   8    22   24   −2    20
13 Alpine Armageddon           18    6   2  10    33   51  −18    20
14 Reçueçn Raptors             18    5   4   9    25   40  −15    19
15 Canting-Aexwell             18    5   3  10    31   32   −1    18
16 Ramton                      18    5   3  10    30   38   −8    18
17 Cinizio                     18    4   6   8    23   31   −8    18
18 West Canton Eagles          18    5   2  11    36   44   −8    17
19 Hesse Sporting              18    4   5   9    11   20   −9    17
20 Puits Tunnellers            18    0   5  13    16   47  −31     5

This week the scores are much more reasonable. The most important games are Écho SC versus Zimmerich FC (Écho, two to one) and Bayern Heidelberg versus Sporting Saint-Carl (Saint-Carl, by the same score). The table shows how close things still are for the most part. (Can you believe that Puits Tunnellers haven't won a game yet!? ... Yes, I can.) With no surprise, the top three teams are all those that came down from the First League last year. Remember that only two seasons ago, Ville-Sur-Rivière won the First League, so they definitely feel they should be able to win the Second League here. It's looking like they may be right.

First League               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Reçueçn FC               10    9   0   1    20    6  +14    27
 2 Annedine Sporting        10    7   0   3    20   11   +9    21
 3 Bonneville Sporting      10    6   1   3    20   16   +4    19
 4 Associated Savoie        10    6   0   4    18   16   +2    18
 5 Arly                     10    4   4   2    18   14   +4    16
 6 Chapel-Field House       10    5   1   4    18   17   +1    16
 7 Harrim FC                10    4   2   4    12   12    0    14
 8 Itrino                   10    4   2   4    15   18   −3    14
 9 Heldingen                10    4   1   5    18   15   +3    13
10 Renwyll                  10    3   4   3    19   17   +2    13
11 Association Genève       10    2   4   4     9   13   −4    10
12 Renting ASC              10    2   4   4     8   15   −7    10
13 Geneva Lake-Side         10    2   3   5    12   17   −5     9
14 Stomford                 10    2   2   6    18   25   −7     8
15 Tyvania                  10    2   2   6     9   19  −10     8
16 Col-De-Môse              10    1   4   5    13   16   −3     7

Reçueçn take another win at home, and they're on top of the league as the first third of the season ends--where they feel they should be, happy to be two entire games clear. Hopefully no one is writing off the season this early, but there's a lot of teams that look like they're starting to think about aiming for the IFCF Challenger's Cup, rather than the Champions' League.

Gerauld Firaut has only let in six goals up to this point (three of which were in a single game), meaning Reçueçn's leads the league in Goals Allowed--well, you know what we mean. It's kind of like golf. They also handily are one of three teams that is tied for the most goals scored, and not coincidentally, the three teams--the other two being Annedine and Bonneville Sporting--have the top three spots for now. Looking at goals for and against, Tyvania definitely has the worst record--a goal differential of minus ten. But they've managed to give them up in bursts it would seem, since they're still ahead of Col-De-Môse, who are last but have a goal differential of only minus three. This week they keep that stat even as they tie Association Genève two-two. Oops, I said I wouldn't mention how badly Genève is doing. Well I guess I lied. They're still doing badly. Tune in for the next installment to see if they can turn that around.

by **Recuecn** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 2:25 pm

RNFL Season Four

Matchdays 11 through 20

Matchday 11

It's ironic that the only two national team stars, Jean-Baptiste Brochard and Maynard Hebron, play for two of the weakest teams in the division. You can see that they put in the effort to carry their teams--Lampadaires Associated and Alpine Armageddon, respectively, but apparently their teammates are too much dead weight to carry. Both lose this week and allow three goals. It's also the half-way point in the season, if you can believe it. Right now there's a handful of teams offering tough competition at the top and a whole bunch close to each other at the bottom, so we'll have to see how things go to predict the results.

It's the Geneva derby and Association Genève handily trounce their hosts six to three. Franky scores two of those and is ecstatic after the game. "We're on the comeback now, baby. Thanks to the fans who always believed in us, you had our backs and we've got yours now, we're headed right for the title. And for those of you who didn't believe in us, you can fuck right off--" the TV cameras cut away but not too many people are shocked. It's a typical Franky moment. Of course, Association Genève still has a long way to go. They're eleventh in the league at the moment, but on the other hand, almost two thirds of the season is left and there's still a solid chance that Franky's promise will be fulfilled.

Matchday 12

Écho SC has been brave efforts to climb up the table--they ought to be capable of doing so but they keep getting unlucky. This week they only manage to draw, which means they stagnate at 6th a week longer. Sporting Saint-Carl, who is even with them on points but ahead on goal difference, also draws this week: two-two to Canting-Aexwell, which is not the result they were hoping for. So the race stays close between these two teams.

Reçueçn FC lose only their second match of the season so far; Tyvania's Georges Rigal slots one past Gerauld Firaut, whose teammates are unable to respond in kind. All the third parties are thankful, since unlike the Second League where things are tighter somewhat at the top but shaping up to leave a team way behind at the bottom, it's the exact opposite here in the First League with Reçueçn FC starting to build a lead over everybody already, but with everyone else still in decently tight competition with each other.

Franky, much more subdued this week, is shut out, along with the rest of his team, by Harrim FC. A Harrim fan heckles him after the game as he heads into the tunnel: "Got their backs, huh!?" Franky just glowers at him, which frankly (if you'll excuse the pun) is better behavior than we've come to expect from the nineteen-year old.

Matchday 13

Again Écho SC and Sporting Saint-Carl only manage to draw against teams that normally they'd hope to beat--Lampadaires Associated and Cinizio. Saint-Carl's game is a four-goal-apiece barn-burner that really shouldn't have happened. Almost as high scoring is Bayern Heidelberg's four-three defeat of Zimmerich FC to draw even with them on points. Zimmerich dropping points this week does give Ville-Sur-Rivière a chance to extend their lead, however.

Associated Savoie heads south to visit Itrino, and receives a four-one vibe check. The Italophones are very happy about that. The way they played, the game was never in doubt.

The second-best Reçueçn City side faces off against the second-best Genevois side in a sort of 'bargain classic'. Jean-Luc Lassalle, Minister of Sport, makes it out to Geneva to see Chapel-Field House, of whom he is famously a fan, play out an entertaining three-three draw. It's probably a bit disappointing for the minister: his side is actually doing very well this year, currently in fourth, while their opponents are second-last. One assumes he was hoping for the win.

Matchday 14

Écho's run of bad luck continues. This week it's a loss to Alpine Armageddon. If that happens to you, it's time for an autopsy. Luis Nebe, their manager, attributes the cause of death: "Our scoring has dried up. If we can't get the ball in the net, it doesn't matter who we're playing, we're not going to be able to win." He doesn't name any names but you imagine his front line was sweating, listening to the interview.

Half the games see at least one of the teams score four goals this week, and in the Bonneville Sporting/Heldingen match, both sides do. It's a big game because either team could be title contenders. The title race is tightening up, too--Reçueçn FC loses again to find themselves only three points in front now.

Here's something I thought I'd include, just because the numbers are so pretty:

First League               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 8 Associated Savoie        14    7   0   7    24   24    0    21

Associated Savoie is squarely in the middle of the pack right now. Seven wins, seven losses. Twenty-four goals scored, Twenty-four goals allowed. The perfectly average team. There's something interesting about their inability to ever tie. But I'm not sure what conclusion to make of that.

Matchday 15

This week Puits Tunnellers draw against Écho SC. To put this in comparison, the Tunnellers have won a single game in the whole season this far, and are dead last in the league. On the other hand, this is the first time that Écho SC have ever dropped down to the Second League. Of course, they ought to have last season. Even before any disciplinary action for their alleged corruption has been announced, karma is already punishing them for their undeserved season in the First League last year. The uncertainty that hangs over the team is certainly responsible for their lack of performance on the pitch.

And with that we're half-way through the First League's season! The top four teams are all strung out with three-point gaps between each of them. Reçueçn FC play their first draw of the season this week, as full time finds them and Arly at three goals apiece. At the bottom of the league, teams are starting to worry about relegation, with Geneva Lake-Side and Renting ASC being the most likely candidates. Tyvania and Col-De-Môse are even on points right at the third relegation spot.

It's in the middle of the table where things are tighter; all the teams we haven't mentioned so far are within two games of each other. So really maybe looking at the table is a pretty meaningless exercise at this point.

Matchday 16

This wouldn't be the week one would expect Écho's luck to turn around: they face off against Bayern Heidelberg, the highest ranking Second League side not to be promoted last year, and currently third in the division. But to Heidelberg's dismay, the home team pulls off what at this point is an upset, shutting them out and taking the victory with a lone goal by Geoffroy Hémery. Elsewhere there's two five-two matches this week, plus Zimmerich FC beating Cinizio five to one. Two of these are no surprise, but the West Canton Eagles over Hamwich FC does upset some bookies.

It's a bit of a slow week, so let's talk about what's going on in international football. Obviously, for Reçuecian teams, not much. None of them made it out of the preliminary rounds at the Dwile Invitational. But the landscape of international club football is changing drastically, and it's interesting that it's happening at exactly the same time as Reçuecian football picks back up. Years ago, when the RNFL was in just its second season--the last full season before it collapsed--domestic associations would send their best representatives to the Union of International Club Associations, which organized several various competitions: the TakilQuip Champions' Cup, the Globe Cup, the Series B Champions' Cup, the Super Cup where the winners of those three competitions faced off, and the Youth Cup for those nations with advanced youth soccer programs. No Reçuecian team ever made it past the preliminary rounds for their respective tournament, and our teams met with little success.

Then, during the third season of RNFL play, the league collapsed. The RNFL dissolved entirely, although its governing body persisted as a shell of itself. Of course, that governing body was the same RNFA we have now, so you may ask yourself, what happened? How did it survive? How did the RNFL come back? The answer is that the RNFA--which at it's base was nothing more than association of clubs coming together to improve their lot--still had some purpose even without the RNFL, just trying to help its members survive.

The clubs that had once made up the RNFL did survive, although it was a near thing for some of them. Without organized league play, revenue tanked. The clubs found themselves in a sort of Hobbesian state of nature, scheduling friendlies with whoever would play them, even clubs from neighboring countries. One club spent a season in a foreign league, but dropped out when asked to relocate to that country if they wanted to continue to play. It was a strange turn of events--the clubs had essentially returned to the pre-RNFA status quo, despite the fact that experience had shown there was a clear appetite for organized football competition in Reçueçn.

It was only when finally Jean-Luc Lassalle's initiative to form a Reçuecian Ministry of Sport caught on and succeeded that the ministry itself finally found itself in the right place to slap some extra regulations on the RNFA and help it get the RNFL going again. Things started off slow; the decision was made to play a third of a season to finish off "Season Three". Afterwards the Ministry of Sport intervened and reorganized the way the RNFA worked, turning it from basically a club owners' association to a governmentally recognized body with authority over the sport at a national level. Thus the RNFA survived and adapted, while the RNFL, which had died, was brought back but given the same name, as if to pretend nothing had happened.

Now with an organized league again, Reçuecian teams began to look abroad, thinking about rejoining international competition. But they found that during the interim, UICA itself had collapsed in the same way that the RNFL had. Without an international movement to replace it, the best option for international competition was the Dwile Invitational. So last years' winners tried that, but as mentioned, didn't do too well. A few Reçuecian players are still in the DIT, as it was called--but only those who are playing for more successful teams abroad. The tournament is ongoing at this time.

We brought this whole thing up because just this week--we mean Matchday 16--there was a development--news from abroad of a new initiative to bring back international competition. But this is getting a bit long, so we'll continue further down.

Matchday 17

Ville-Sur-Rivière's lead is up to two games, as Zimmerich FC fall to Hamwich FC away, two-nil. Lampadaires Associated hosts Slynwell and surprises them with three goals in the last ten minutes, coming back to win by four to two. Their home fans lose their minds.

And they've done it! It's the second time Le Classique has happened this season, and Association Genève, with their 6-4-6 record, host Reçueçn FC, first in the league and with a record of 12-1-3. No one expected Geneva to win, but they do--a goal from Franky opens the scoring in the 24th minute, and Alceste Charbonnier extends the lead in the 38th. Reçueçn answers with one of their own to open the second half, a beautiful set piece from Olympe Ryal that gives their fans hope of a comeback. In stoppage time they're still hoping until Harold Saunders runs all the way up to the 6' and tucks one past Firaut at 90+4'. So many of the National Team players play for these two teams, and afterwards they all hug on the pitch, joking and slapping each other's backs. It's a good sign for the cohesion of the National Team, who's in the middle of World Cup Qualifications and hoping to make it out of a close qualifying group. It's hard to tell if the fans think it's good for the Reçueçn-Genève rivalry: a certain amount of mutual hate is part of the tradition and this back-slapping with the opponents is something new. But the Association Genève fans are just happy to have beaten their worst rivals during a season where everything seems to be going so poorly.

Matchday 18

Zimmerich FC's match is the most exciting one this week: lots of goals, a comeback, penalties, disallowed offsides goals, a double yellow card for Harrison Palmer--it's all there. It gets re-shown throughout the week, which is unusual for a Second League game. But winning won't be enough for Zimmerich if they want the title; Ville-Sur-Rivière will need to start losing games and that hasn't been happening.

Ok, we promised more about what's going on with international domestic football (international domestic... you know what we mean, right?) and now's as good as time as any to discuss that further, especially since Lassalle, the minister of Sport, has just come back from international talks where various national representatives gave their opinions on the charter for the IFCF... but we're getting ahead of ourselves. What's the IFCF?

Well, as mentioned, UICA competition collapsed just like the RNFL, but wasn't fortunate enough to have a sporting strongman bring it back. So representatives from several countries--Apox, Banija, Eastfield Lodge, Kita-Hinode to name a few, notably all football superpowers--announced a joint plan to create a new organization. The organization, to be known as the International Federation of Club Football, will be responsible for organizing new tournaments to replace all those once run by the Union of International Club Associations. There was a minor international outcry at the announcement. Everyone agreed that it was a Good Idea and that Something Had To Be Done, but of course representatives of certain countries felt left out of the process and others raised other concerns.

Thus now, a few weeks later, Jean-Luc Lassalle is just returning from a conference at which he echoed concerns of some other figures that the IFCF be created to be as democratic as possible. Although the conference had no voting or authority to put behind its suggestions, it did create a forum for the sharing of ideas and comments which has resulted in what looks to be a strengthened IFCF that will hopefully be holding competitions for years to come. Right away upon Lassalle's return, the government representative in the RNFA, moved for a vote to reward league champions in the RNFL with places in IFCF competition. The vote was unanimous. Thus the winner of the First League will not be competing in the UICA Champions' Cup next year, but in the IFCF Champions' League.

Matchday 19

With Écho SC finally performing well again, things are starting to close up at the top, behind Ville-Sur-Rivière. The next five teams are all neck and neck, and then the middle of the table is starting to spread out a bit, and there's another couple clumps at the bottom. Puits Tunnellers is thirteen points behind everybody else and considers itself lucky each time it can scrape by with a draw. But after all, you can't be relegated out of the lowest tier, so it's not the end of the world.

There's one other important note to be added to the discussion of international domestic football. Just as the RNFT returned to existence to find that in addition to the WCC tournaments, a new tournament, the IAC, had been created (remember that the RNFT's first games after its hiatus were in IAC 7), so the RNFL returned to existence to find that not only had the IFCF replaced UICA, but a new organization is being born as well--the Federação de Futebol Independente. The FFI, as it will be known, plans to fill the same gap as the AOCL, CEdC, or CdC, just for nations that are not in Atlantian Oceania, Rushmore, or Esportiva. You might say that it will be to the IFCF as the IAC is to the World Cup--or maybe more helpfully, that it will be to the IAC as the IFCF is to the World Cup. Whatever. Either way. It all means the same thing--it's a competition where independent domestic associations can send their champions, just like with UICA or any other international domestic tournament. So if Reçueçn FC can pull off this title win that they're shooting for, they'll find themselves not only in the IFCF Champions' League, but also the equally brand new FFI Liga dos Vencedores.

Matchday 20

Second League                 Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Ville-Sur-Rivière           28   20   5   3    69   33  +36    65
 2 Zimmerich FC                28   18   3   7    73   44  +29    57
 3 Bayern Heidelberg           28   17   5   6    50   24  +26    56
 4 Hamwich FC                  28   15   6   7    40   32   +8    51
 5 Sporting Saint-Carl         28   14   8   6    62   46  +16    50
 6 Écho SC                     28   14   7   7    37   25  +12    49
 7 Actwell                     28   13   7   8    64   52  +12    46
 8 West Canton Eagles          28   12   5  11    67   60   +7    41
 9 Boruncia                    28   10   9   9    47   52   −5    39
10 Hoping FC                   28   10   8  10    48   47   +1    38
11 Slynwell                    28   10   6  12    35   35    0    36
12 Lampadaires Associated      28    8  10  10    41   47   −6    34
13 Reçueçn Raptors             28    9   7  12    39   52  −13    34
14 Hanting FC                  28    9   5  14    43   46   −3    32
15 Ramton                      28    9   5  14    48   54   −6    32
16 Hesse Sporting              28    8   8  12    21   28   −7    32
17 Canting-Aexwell             28    7   5  16    42   53  −11    26
18 Cinizio                     28    6   8  14    41   57  −16    26
19 Alpine Armageddon           28    7   2  19    42   76  −34    23
20 Puits Tunnellers            28    1   7  20    24   70  −46    10

Sporting Saint-Carl and Ramton go at it this week and end up with a three-three draw in a nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat match. West Canton Eagles and Lampadaires Associated arrive at the same scoreline but it's not quite as fun to watch somehow--rather than both teams putting on really good performances, like in the other game, it seems both keep making mistakes and allowing goals. The West Canton Eagles put one in their own net by mistake.

A look at the Second League table with ten matches left shows how well Ville-Sur-Rivière is doing. They'll be planning to go back up for sure. Zimmerich FC is in the same boat, just a bit back, and Bayern Heidelberg will also be upset if after coming this far (and missing out on promotion by only one place, one game, last year) they can't finally punch a ticket back to the First League, where they started in Season One.

Hamwich FC, Sporting Saint-Carl, and Écho SC are fighting among them for what would in the past have been the fourth UICA SBCC spot--something that still existed when last season started. Now, of course, Reçueçn, like other nations, is only entitled to three spots in what will be the new IFCF Liga B Champion's trophy. Unfortunately the loss of that extra spot looks to make the end to the season in the Second League less exciting than it could have been.

First League               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Reçueçn FC               20   14   1   5    34   18  +16    43
 2 Bonneville Sporting      20   11   5   4    44   33  +11    38
 3 Heldingen                20   11   4   5    39   26  +13    37
 4 Annedine Sporting        20   11   3   6    35   25  +10    36
 5 Association Genève       20    9   4   7    37   32   +5    31
 6 Harrim FC                20    8   6   6    23   21   +2    30
 7 Chapel-Field House       20    8   5   7    33   31   +2    29
 8 Associated Savoie        20    9   2   9    35   35    0    29
 9 Arly                     20    6   8   6    39   35   +4    26
10 Stomford                 20    7   4   9    43   47   −4    25
11 Itrino                   20    7   4   9    31   37   −6    25
12 Renwyll                  20    6   5   9    32   37   −5    23
13 Col-De-Môse              20    5   6   9    22   24   −2    21
14 Geneva Lake-Side         20    4   6  10    25   36  −11    18
15 Tyvania                  20    4   5  11    19   37  −18    17
16 Renting ASC              20    2   8  10    21   38  −17    14

Well, two thirds of the season down and here we are. Association Genève is finally starting to climb up the table--their win over Arly this week takes them to 5th place, less than two games out of contention for an IFCF spot. Associated Savoie is back in 8th as the average team--look how symmetrical their record is here. Gerauld Firaut has let in more goals than he did in the beginning of the season, but it's still less than one per game--no one else can claim that. Thanks to him Reçueçn FC is still in 1st. Annedine Sporting, who had been in 2nd for a while there, is now down to 4th, but look how close those places are. Then there's the jump down to 5th where Genève is, but there again it's very tight--four teams within a game of each other. Another cluster below that of the teams that are hoping they won't have to worry about relegation this year. It's only at the bottom where it starts to trail off a bit that teams like Tyvania and Geneva Lake-Side are beginning to stress about it. Even Renting ASC's fourteen points aren't too far away from Lake-Side's 18, but then, if they've only won two games this far, is it really that likely that they can step up the pressure at the end of the season? Perhaps, but they'll have to do a very good job to avoid going down.

Tune in next time for the conclusion of the season, and to find out whether or not they're successful.

by **Recuecn** » Tue Jan 07, 2020 7:42 pm

RNFL Season Four

Matchdays 21 through 30

Matchday 21

Some high-scoring draws this week in the Second League, hopefully keeping people watching despite the overshadowing of the First League. Ramton and Ville-Sur-Rivière go three-three, and Hoping FC and Actwell do one better--each--and go four-four. At this point in the season, Ville-Sur-Rivière has been scoring just about two and a half goals per game. That's Pretty Good. Good enough, at least, that the other teams can't keep up... with the exception of Zimmerich FC (of course), who, despite being two games back, have scored three more goals.

We're two thirds of the way through the season here in the First League, so let's take stock of what going on. Reçueçn FC is still on top of the league with a 14-1-6 record now, but they've just lost to Geneva Lake-Side, which means Bonneville Sporting, in 2nd and only two points behind, is catching up. The last two IFCF spots are held by Heldingen and Annedine Sporting, but behind them is Association Genève who finally, with their win today, are starting to belatedly find their rightful place among the decently-ranked teams in the upper-mid table.

Geneva Lake-Side, who've just beaten the league leaders, would actually be set for relegation if this was the last day of the season, currently in 14th. That said, they're tied on points with Col-De-Môse and the battle to escape relegation is pretty tight as well. In fact, there's not really anywhere where there's any gaps in the table, it's a pretty evenly spread out thing where every team should be able to gain a couple places--but also risks being overtaken.

Matchday 22

Cinizio holds Écho SC to a scoreless draw, much to the latter's chagrin. Hoping FC feels the same way on failing to beat the Alpine Armageddon. Zimmerich takes home an easy win against Puits Tunnellers--the Tunnellers have had a single win all season, so one would hope not to drop points there.

There's not any big upsets today, and the table mostly stays the same. In fact the only change to the ranking at all is that Associated Savoie drops a couple places from 8th to 10th. It's worse then they deserve after a hard-fought battle against Bonneville that they lose by a single goal.The names you might recognize from the national team are doing their thing--Gerauld Firaut gets another shut-out and Franky gets another brace in Association Genève's two-nil win against Tyvania.

Matchday 23

Lampadaires Associated, Alpine Armageddon, and Puits Tunnellers have sort of established themselves at this point as the bottom feeders of the RNFL. There's some other teams who are bad, but none quite as bad so consistently. This season, however, Lampadaires Associated is doing better than its two counterparts. Today, in fact, they defeat the Armageddon four to one. The Armageddon, to be fair, is used to this kind of treatment at this point.

Association Genève play against Bonneville--an actual good team of good quality--and are able to pull off a two-zero victory. You could hardly recognize Genève as the team that started off the season so poorly. Their win today finally puts them into an IFCF spot. Bonneville stays in second, and as Heldingen draw Reçueçn, stay evenly sandwiched between the two teams.

Col-De-Môse plays what is likely to be the most boring game of the season; a zero to zero tie against Arly. The dropped points, however, land Col-De-Môse in the middle of the relegation spots--tough luck for a team that was only promoted last season. Arly, who cheated their way to promotion--at the expense of Col-De-Môse, who had won the league!--are in 9th place right now, which isn't amazing, but then it's palpably unfair that they're here at all.

Matchday 24

It's getting to the point where teams need to start thinking about where they'll finish this season. They're more than four fifths of the way through here in the Second League. This week, the leaders drop points--Sporting Saint-Carl are able to draw Ville-Sur-Rivière and give Zimmerich and Heidelberg a little bit of a chance to catch up. Zimmerich and Heidelberg both take full advantage of the opportunity, playing a pair of beautiful games with few mistakes.

Bonneville Sporting loses to Tyvania, of all people, which gives Heldingen, Association Genève, and Reçueçn FC the chance to make up a little ground, catch up, or extend their lead, respectively. The only problem is that Heldingen and Genève both balk at the opportunity--Heldingen loses three-two to rivals Stomford, while Genève, hosting the other team in the league from Reçueçn City, is unable to do better than a three-three tie. They've passed Heldingen, but Annedine Sporting now pass them with a victory over Harrim FC. Only Reçueçn FC takes advantage, with two goals from Thomas Büchel sealing the fate of their opponents Itrino. It's now the third game in a row where they've scored exactly two goals.

Matchday 25

These upper-mid-table sides are proving dangerous for Ville, who drop points again this week against Écho SC. Fortunately for them, Zimmerich also proves unable to put away Slynwell, so they maintain their lead over second place, at least. Bayern Heidelberg takes the opportunity to creep a bit closer since its their turn to play against the Tunnellers.

Heldingen and Annedine Sporting play each other this week, and true to their form as a previous UICA contender, Heldingen take the match. Association Genève, meanwhile, who should have been able to get ahead of both these teams, drop points to likely relegation candidate Col-De-Môse, who beat them two-one.

The real shocker this week is Itrino's game against Stomford. Eight goals are scored, and three quarters of them are for Itrino, against whom Stomford shouldn't even need to be trying that hard. The three points, however, are much more important to Itrino, whom they help to lift to a bit of a safer distance from the relegation zone.

Matchday 26

Puits Tunnellers actually come away with a point today--they draw Boruncia at two goals apiece... somehow. Boruncia is in a three-way tie for 9th and shouldn't be dropping points to Puits Tunnellers. Nobody should be dropping points to Puits Tunnellers. Alpine Armageddon and the Reçueçn Raptors, who would be on either side of the relegation divide if the Second League had relegation, play each other this week and Armageddon wins. It's not enough for them to catch up.

How is Col-De-Môse doing this!? This week they beat Bonneville Sporting (although it doesn't get the Col out of the relegation zone... and the clock is ticking. Bonneville is in good company, however: the teams around it on the table are losing as well, if not to such embarrassing opponents. Renwyll takes down Reçueçn FC with a single goal that Firaut is unable to save, and Arly rebuffs Heldingen three to two. Howeer, Annedine Sporting face Itrino and handle them easily three to one, so they're now tied with Bonneville on both points and goal differential. And Genève--Genève wins the derby against Geneva Lake-Side by a whopping five to one. Franky scores a hat trick and Harold Saunders and Elmar Weschler help out with goals of their own as well. Lake-Side's only answer is a header in the thirty-second minute that Bechtholdt bobbles and drops in the goal. But by the second half they've given up.

Matchday 27

Zimmerich and Ville-Sur-Rivière face off, and Ville wins, cementing their lead. Zimmerich drops back to third as Bayern Heidelberg passes them with a win over the Raptors to end up just two game behind Ville. The next closest team to a promotion spot at the moment is Hamwich FC, who unfortunately lose to Hoping this week--there's a bit of a gap there too now. Other than that and the Sporting Saint-Carl vs Actwell game, there's not much happening this week. But time is running out for teams trying to catch up, faster than they realize.

This week it is Bonneville Sporting's turn to beat up on Geneva Lake-Side, who have been doing worse and worse as the season approaches its end. A six-four win for Bonneville means that in theory, overtaking Reçueçn FC for the title spot is possible; they're four points back and there's three games left. Reçueçn don't help their own cause by drawing with Tyvania, who they should be able to beat. Yet another shut-out for Firaut, but it doesn't help if his teammates can't score any goals.

Arly, who, as your friendly reminder, don't deserve to be in this league, have been slowly climbing their way up the table. This week they defeated Itrino two to one to find themselves in 7th.

Renwyll, who have always qualified for a UICA spot (by always coming 4th) officially are breaking their streak this season. They draw against Stomford this week which finds them twelve points out of 4th place. They're currently 11th, and may not be making up that much ground.

Matchday 28

Bayern Heidelberg is in second with two matchdays left, six points behind. Theoretically they could still take the title if Ville-Sur-Rivière just, stops winning. They'll also need to catch up 6 goals of goal differential. So it'll take two two-nil wins for Heidelberg and two one-nil losses for Ville. Plus another goal for Heidelberg somewhere (or against Ville); otherwise they lose the next tiebreaker which is goals scored. So it's possible, but definitely not likely. Hamwich FC has even less hope of catching up to a promotion spot--none at all. They're now three full games back with only two left to play. Maybe next year, Hamwich.

Association Genève is looking better than ever. Today, in impeccable form, they trounce Heldingen three-nil to find themselves not only ahead of Heldingen, but ahead of Bonneville Sporting on goal differential... and in 2nd place! This is shocking. 2nd is a normal place for Genève to finish the season, but after having seen them start the season 2-4-4, the turnaround is incredible. You know that Jean-Pierre Boulet, Association Genève's senior manager, can be counting on a raise, now that he's dodged being fired for his team's performance in the first half of the season.

Behind Genève we have Bonneville Sporting, Heldingen, and Annedine Sporting, the latter two tied on points just as Bonneville and Genève are. Theoretically, since none of these four teams is more than six points behind Reçueçn FC, any of them could win the league. Of course, for that they have to count on Reçueçn to drop points, but they have been doing that--today it's a three-nil loss to Stomford, who are in 6th and doing okay for themselves. They haven't been able to work their way quite as high up the table as they would have liked, probably, but they've felled a few giants along the way.

Two games out from the end of the season, the entire bottom half of the table is within six points of relegation. We're assuming it'll look mostly the same, but let's see what happens next week.

Matchday 29

Heidelberg's hopes stay alive! I have to say, with the way Ville was leading the pack the whole season through, I really didn't expect things to come down to the last match-day here. But Ville loses 2-4 to... oh God. Ville loses to the Alpine Armageddon! Oh Lord that's embarrassing. The Armageddon should have been written off at this point. They can't realistically finish better than 18th at this point, which in any other league would mean relegation (technically they can tie the two teams ahead of them--but there's no way they're making up the nineteen-goal difference they would need to win the tiebreaker). Meanwhile, Heidelberg is happy with a one-zero win over Sporting Saint-Carl, which combined with Ville losing by two, also cuts the goal differential they need to make up in half. Another goal would have been nice, but theoretically at this point if Heidelberg can do the same thing next week, they can take the league. And guess what. Guess who Heidelberg plays for their last game of the season. That's right. It's Ville-Sur-Rivière. A win by two goals or more sees Heidelberg win, anything else keeps Ville on top.

There it is! That's the league! Reçueçn FC beat Annedine Sporting two-nil to win the league with a week to spare, helped by the fact that Genève and Bonneville both lose as well (the latter to Heldingen--the former, frustratingly, to Itrino). Association Genève and Bonneville Sporting will still be fighting for that last Challenger's Cup spot, though; they're still even on points. If they get particularly unlucky, Annedine might steal it from both of them.

At the other end of the table, Renting ASC, like we've known for a while, is going to finish last and be relegated, but Tyvania, Geneva Lake-Side, and Col-De-Môse are all within a point of each other, so any one of them could make it to safety. Right now the Col is a point up and so has an advantage, which is nice. After what they've been through, they deserve it.

Matchday 30

Second League                 Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Ville-Sur-Rivière           38   25   8   5    88   49  +39    83
 2 Bayern Heidelberg           38   26   5   7    66   28  +38    83
 3 Zimmerich FC                38   26   4   8   102   58  +44    82
 4 Hamwich FC                  38   23   6   9    53   40  +13    75
 5 Écho SC                     38   20  10   8    55   30  +25    70
 6 Sporting Saint-Carl         38   19   9  10    79   64  +15    66
 7 Actwell                     38   18   9  11    87   71  +16    63
 8 West Canton Eagles          38   17   5  16    85   81   +4    56
 9 Hoping FC                   38   14  11  13    68   65   +3    53
10 Hanting FC                  38   15   5  18    63   65   −2    50
11 Boruncia                    38   12  12  14    61   70   −9    48
12 Cinizio                     38   11  11  16    60   69   −9    44
13 Slynwell                    38   11  10  17    48   53   −5    43
14 Canting-Aexwell             38   11   8  19    65   71   −6    41
15 Lampadaires Associated      38    9  13  16    54   66  −12    40
16 Ramton                      38   11   7  20    62   76  −14    40
17 Hesse Sporting              38    9  12  17    33   48  −15    39
18 Alpine Armageddon           38   10   5  23    61   96  −35    35
19 Reçueçn Raptors             38    9   7  22    48   78  −30    34
20 Puits Tunnellers            38    1   9  28    33   93  −60    12

Green: Promotion to First League and qualification for IFCF Liga B Champions' Trophy

And it's a photo finish! The game between Ville-Sur-Rivière and Bayern Heidelberg breaks Second League broadcast records, given that the First League is already decided. And what a game it is. In the 51st minute Maximilien Rossignol manages to slip his mark on a not-amazing cross from Martino Ratto, and with a single touch, deflects it to the far post, past Giustiniano Campoli, who stands there, helpless, and Pompeo Pangallo, who dives the wrong way. The crowd goes wild. Heidelberg has a chance. One more goal wins the league, and in stoppage time in the ninety-fourth minute, Rossignol gets a breakaway. There's no one between him and the goal, but Charles Brugière is chasing him down and give about the ugliest tackle you've ever seen--cleats to the heel from behind, sliding in, spikes up. He's nowhere near the ball. The red card is out of the ref's pocket before Rossignol has stopped rolling in pain. It's too far out for a penalty kick, but Nico Hattenberger takes the direct kick and fires it with power, curving out of Pangallo's reach--and off the crossbar into the crowd behind. That's the end of the game, and Heidelberg is devastated. They've just won, but not by enough, and they come second in the league on goal differential by a single goal. It's the only thing Reçuecians talk about all through the off-season.

Both Heidelberg and Ville are rewarded with promotion, as well as Zimmerich. The only thing worth noting is that Puits Tunnellers still only have a single win to their name, and less than half the points of the team ahead of them. Pitiful.

First League               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Reçueçn FC               30   17   4   9    42   28  +14    55
 2 Association Genève       30   15   6   9    61   44  +17    51
 3 Bonneville Sporting      30   15   6   9    62   49  +13    51
 4 Heldingen                30   14   8   8    56   43  +13    50
 5 Annedine Sporting        30   14   5  11    54   47   +7    47
 6 Arly                     30   11  12   7    53   46   +7    45
 7 Stomford                 30   12   8  10    66   66    0    44
 8 Chapel-Field House       30   11   8  11    49   48   +1    41
 9 Associated Savoie        30   13   2  15    50   55   −5    41
10 Harrim FC                30   10  10  10    33   34   −1    40
11 Renwyll                  30   10   8  12    49   53   −4    38
12 Itrino                   30   11   4  15    49   58   −9    37
13 Geneva Lake-Side         30    9   8  13    47   56   −9    35
14 Col-De-Môse              30    8  10  12    36   40   −4    34
15 Tyvania                  30    8   8  14    27   44  −17    32
16 Renting ASC              30    3  11  16    31   54  −23    20

Green: League Champions, qualification for IFCF Champions' League and FFI Liga dos Vencedores
Chartreuse: Qualification for IFCF Challengers' Cup and FFI Liga dos Vencedores
Blue: Qualification for IFCF Challengers' Cup and FFI Copa das Confederações
Cyan: Qualification for IFCF Challengers' Cup
Red: Relegation to Second League

Although the league's been decide, a lot happens here the last day. Col-De-Môse draw with Harrim FC, but Geneva Lake-Side beat out Tyvania, sending both of the others down to the Second League and saving their own skins. Above them it's Itrino and, surprisingly, Renwyll, unable to do better than 11th. Reçueçn FC, short on motivation now that the league is theirs, drop a game to Arly, which is disappointing to everyone to be honest, even Genève fans with a deeply-seated hatred of Reçueçn; Arly is very unpopular at the moment as revelations of their corruption continue to be unveiled. It doesn't seem to be affecting their performance here at the end of the season, however: they finish a nice 6th, ahead of Stomford.

Annedine Sporting ties Stomford here on the last day, which means they can't catch up to Genève and Bonneville. In fact, Both Genève and Bonneville win their games, and Heldingen draws, which moves Heldingen down to 4th place, just one point behind the other two. Bonneville and Genève are even on points, so Association Genève wins the second spot in the league (as well as the second spot for the Liga dos Vencedores) on goal differential.

Yes, that's right. Association Genève, the same Association Genève that couldn't score a goal in the opening matches, made it all the way back up to finish 2nd in the league. It's quite the comeback. Although Franky mumbles something about 'never being first,' the team and the fans are very pleased with themselves, and celebrate hard--harder even than the league winners, Reçueçn FC, who have known for almost two weeks at this point that they had it in the bag (and are also ending the season on a loss).

At the Season 4 award ceremony, Jeanne Chartray, Ministry of Sport representative to the RNFA, promises "consequences" for Arly's corruption. It's late, but it'll be something at least. The exact details are yet to be made public. In the meantime, those looking for happy news stories rather than sad ones can look forward to the first Reçuecian teams competing in international club soccer competition since the 60th UICA cycle.

by **Recuecn** » Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:30 am

The most recent--and only--time that the Reçuecian National Football Team competed in a non-WCC tournament other than the IAC was immediately after their Baptism of Fire (the 59th, right before qualifying began for the 72nd World Cup). Reçueçn hosted Le Premier Annuel Tournoi Teikei, a single-match tournament against United RussoAsia which the Reçuecians handily took, three goals to one. The plan was originally for the tournament to be a recurring event, bringing together the nations in the Teikei alliance, but with Reçueçn's unexpected exit from international football and eventual return only after the dissolution of the alliance, it never took place again.

Le Tournoi Teikei was described as 'a friendly tournament'; the match counted towards a trophy, so it couldn't strictly be described as a friendly, but the small scale of the event--an entire tournament in one game--ensured that for all intents and purposes, it was nothing more than that. Most Reçuecian fans considered it for a long time as the only friendly their team had ever played.

That changed, however, when the RNFT launched its publicity campaign for its inter-tournament schedule for the period after World Cup 84 and leading up to IAC 9. In television ads and in their social media campaign, the Unicorns billed their upcoming games as les premiers amicaux (The First Friendlies). The scheduling of the friendlies was thanks to the RNFA, in particular the representative of the Ministry of Sport, Jeanne Chartray, who was instructed by the government to push for games against nations with whom Reçueçn wanted to strengthen its relationships. Of course, scheduling did not allow games to be scheduled against nearly as many nations as might be desired. Four games were scheduled, against Banija, Havynwilde, Fujai, and Hapilopper, alternating home and away. The Plough Islands were originally also contacted, but as nothing was heard back the planning committee moved on with scheduling procedures, only to receive a polite handwritten reply all the way from the antipodes after the fixtures had already been finalized.

Post-World Cup 84 Friendlies
Banija 0-1 Reçueçn
Star Field, Herzegovina City, Banija
Goalscorer: Ly Nasser 57'
Reçueçn line-up: Gerauld Firaut (c), Leo Beck, Ägidius Heissler, Norman Bright, Oliver Spencer, Luc Pélissier, Grégoire Leclair, Maynard Hebron, Hippolyte Lavigne, Franky Adams, Freeman Lebo
Substitutions: Nasser for H. Lavigne (37'), Saunders for Leclair (63'), Büchel for Hebron (78')
Reçueçn 2-1 Havynwilde
National Stadium, Reçueçn, Reçueçn
Goalscorers: Per Tegeler 39', Klaus Klemm 72'
Reçueçn line-up: Jannick Bechtholdt, Emanuele Cutrona, Paulin Bourguignon, Lukas Kayserling, Klaus Klemm, Luc Pélissier, Grégoire Leclair (c), Maynard Hebron, Per Tegeler, Ly Nasser, Jean-Baptiste Brochard
Substitutions: H. Lavigne for Tegeler (64'), R. Lavigne for Pélissier (68'), Saunders for Leclair (79')
Fujai 0-2 Reçueçn
Nykanalstadion, Keiserholde, Fujai
Goalscorers: Harold Saunders (25'), Freeman Lebo (59')
Reçueçn line-up: Helies de Malhortye, Emanuele Cutrona, Paulin Bourguignon, Lukas Kayserling, Klaus Klemm, Raoul Lavigne, Harold Saunders, Thomas Büchel, Hippolyte Lavigne, Franky Adams, Freeman Lebo (c)
Substitutions: Pélissier for R. Lavigne (56'), Brochard for Lebo (70'), Tegeler for H. Lavigne
Reçueçn 5-1 Hapilopper
National Stadium, Reçueçn, Reçueçn
Goalscorers: Franky Adams (12', 37'), Fremman Lebo (19'), Ly Nasser (47'), Maynard Hebron (90+2')
Reçueçn line-up: Gerauld Firaut (c), Leo Beck, Ägidius Heissler, Norman Bright, Oliver Spencer, Luc Pélissier, Grégoire Leclair, Maynard Hebron, Hippolyte Lavigne, Franky Adams, Freeman Lebo
Substitutions: Nasser for Adams (46'), Brochard for Lebo (63'), Cutrona for Beck (63')

For the first match, the Unicorns were off to Banija, a nation they had never faced before in any competition. The Kadongo Kamu, currently ranked 3rd in the world, would present the toughest challenge of any of Reçueçn's scheduled games, and the match was certainly the most closely dontested of the four.

It was a beautiful day in Herzegovina City at Star Field, although fortunately for the Reçuecians, unused to the heat, there was a bit of haze. The game started off very much as one might have expected, with The Kadongo Kamu on the attack and the Unicorns putting up a strong defense at their end of the field. Reçueçn's back line was pretty good at keeping most danger out of the box, but the team had pretty much given up on controlling the midfield. However, as the game progressed and the Banijans pushed further and further down the pitch, the Reçuecian counterattacks began to grow more and more dangerous. Lebo and Lavigne alternated on a couple breakaways racing down the wings with Franky trying his best to keep up, coming down the middle to try to beat the defenders back for the cross. By the end of the first half, Reçueçn had had three such breakaways, each time scaring Banija a little bit worse, but the third time, Lavigne tripped as he ran down the field and appeared to strain a muscle, forcing Tremblay to sub him out of the game. It looked like the home team had things comfortably in the bag, particularly if they could reset their defense before coming back out.

As the second half began, the Kadongo Kamu was just as dominant as it had been in the first, now tempering its dominant attack with a watchful eye, ready for each counterattack. The Unicorns had hardly made it past the center line once. But in the 57th minute, the visitors caught their lucky break. Spencer made a beautiful clean diving tackle to tap the ball to Leclair, who sent a through ball past the Banijan back line that Franky was able to catch up with. Franky headed straight for goal, but as a pair of Banijan defenders caught up with him before he could take a shot, he passed to Nasser, who drove it home. The Reçuecians were thrilled.

Banija continued to dominate the rest of the game, but the RNFT doubled down on its defense now that it had the lead, and prevented any equalizer. Thus Reçueçn, undeservedly, won the day.

The second match Reçueçn had scheduled was a home game against unranked Havynwilde, which would not present as much of a challenge. The Unicorns found it not too difficult to control the game, even fielding a starting lineup consisting mostly of reserves. Bechtholdt was given a rare chance to start in goal and for the most part mad the team proud, although he did let in one goal towards the beginning of the second half. Tegeler had already scored a goal in the first, so at least Reçueçn wasn't behind, but it didn't look good to be tied so late in the game against an unranked opponent. Particularly given that Reçueçn was pretty much directing the flow of the match as they wished, it looked like it was going to be a very disappointing result. Klaus Klemm was the one who came to deliver Reçueçn from its fate. Coming up for a corner kick in the 72nd minute, he broke free of his mark and redirected a beautiful volley with a great, twisting header Havynwilde's goalie had no way of getting to. Finally in the lead again, Reçueçn locked down the last twenty minutes of the game to win 2-1.

The third match was on the road again, this time to snowy Keiserholde in Fujai. At this point in the year, during the winter break, the cold was pretty fierce this far north, but the Reçuecians fought through it for a convincing 2-0 victory. Again, playing against an opponent just taking its first steps in international football, Tremblay found fit to rest many of his starters and give some practice to the bench, who acquitted themselves way. Helies de Malhortye, in goal, got the shutout, while Saunder and Lebo both found one apiece to put the game away. Jean-Luc Lassalle, the Reçuecian minister of sport, attended this game in person for a few nice ceremonies before and after the game where he exchanged gifts with his Fujansk counterpart and made a couple brief speeches about the friendship between the two nations. It was a very fine event, and of course the Reçuecians were particularly happy, having just won a soccer game. Hopefully the Fujar enjoyed it as much as we did.

For the final scheduled friendly, the National Stadium played host to Hapilopper's national football team, drawing a sold-out crowd expecting a very hard-fought game between two strong, closely matched sides. Instead, they were treated to a blow-out. The Unicorns, who on paper had a slight edge going into the game, found themselves drastically over-performing. By the end of the first twenty minutes, they had already scored twice. Hapilopper responded with one of their own, but Franky, who had scored the first goal, got another one as the first half drew to a close. This signaled the beginning of the end for any Hapilopperian comeback as Reçueçn was now up three to one with 45 minutes still to play. Tremblay, deciding Franky had had enough fun, took him out at half-time and replaced him with Nasser. Apparently whatever Tremblay told his team in the locker-room didn't include telling them to let up on the gas at all, because Nasser scored a goal of his own within two minutes of stepping onto the field.

The Unicorns continued to attack, refusing to grant the Hapilopper side any respite, but throughout the second half the visitors held strong. The HNFT's results began to correlate with what might be expected from a team of its caliber, as they fought Reçueçn to a stand-still for 45 minutes. The lack of goals in this portion of the game, however, did not indicate any drop in intensity whatsoever, as the game remained fast-paced and exciting. Both sides got a few good chances, but neither was able to make it across the goal line. Firaut, back in net for Reçueçn, made a few nice saves including a couple very remarkable ones to stop Hapilopper from coming back.

Finally, 45 minutes after Nasser's goal, in the second minute of stoppage time, Maynard Hebron took a shot from distance as if to add insult to injury. The shot rocketed into the box and deflecting off a defender, missed the goalie's outstretched gloves by a hair. Three minutes later the whistle blew and the Reçuecian celebrations began.

"I thought I would try a new attacking style," said Reçueçn's manager Jacques Tremblay after the match. "It's not the traditional Reçuecian way, but it certainly worked. I didn't expect it to cut through Hapilopper's defenses quite so well, but of course, they certainly weren't expecting it. That said, I'm not sure that it was really the tactical change that was responsible for our dominance today. Maybe something went wrong on the Hapilopper side, or maybe, maybe it was just bad luck. This kind of thing can happen even to the best teams, and Hapilopper put up a good fight."

The RNFT is very happy with four wins in four games, including the unexpected upset and the even more unexpected walloping of Hapilopper. With its 'first friendlies' behind it, the RNFT is ready and keen to focus on its upcoming IAC 9 campaign.

by **Recuecn** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 6:42 pm

As Reçuecian football begins to grow and slowly win name recognition outside of the nation, politicians back home have become concerned that the sport is making too great of an effort to adapt to the international audience, rather than stay true to its roots. Many soccer broadcasts are transmitted entirely in English, and many clubs and organizations have been given anglicized names. Policy see participation in tournaments such as the IFCF and FFI as largely responsible for this phenomenon, but it is not a new one—even back in the UICA days many clubs were best known by their English names.

Pressure, therefore, was put on Jeanne Chartray, Ministry of Sport representative within the Reçueçn National Football Association (RNFA), to push for reform. However, the RNFA did not seem amenable to the idea. Firstly, it did not see it as an important issue (perhaps clubs thought that trying to market to the anglophone audience might broaden their appeal), and secondly, the RNFA and most clubs did in fact refer to themselves in the local languages anyway. It was the media that was responsible for such widespread translation, and the RNFA could only control a few small aspects of their overall media presence. Sponsors and affiliates could be brought in line, but independent sportswriters and analysists would use whatever language they chose.

Despite the RNFA's inability, or perhaps refusal, to address this "issue," it was becoming more and more clear that it was a popular idea among Reçuecians. A small minority countered that this was the beginning of a harmful, nationalist sentiment, but to most it seemed all good and patriotic. If Reçueçn was being seen more abroad, it should be on its own terms. And thanks to the nation's unique history and structure, what was being proposed as more regionalistic than anything else. Most Reçuecians still identified more strongly with their local state than with the federal alliance itself.

Thus le loi Kazemi, named for Francine Kazemi, the Chambre maïorale deputy who wrote the bill, was duly approved by the Chambre des lords and passed into effect. Under le loi Kazemi, any publication, broadcast, or other form of organized communication, either being distributed in Reçueçn or by a firm or organization with operations in Reçueçn, must refer to all Reçueçian organizations, enterprises, and institutions in their own language. Thus, the names of organizations from francophone Reçueçn must be given in French, those from Alemannic Reçueçn in Swiss German, and those from Italophone Reçueçn in Italian. Although the law applies to all Reçuecian organizations of any language, including Arpetan (Franco-Provençal), these first three languages were already Reçueçn's official languages and account for the vast majority of all cases. All government or official national organizations must have names in each of the three official languages, although not all must be used at all times. The law does not directly regulate references to the names of foreign companies or organizations, so those will continue to be discussed as they were before. (Usually Reçuecians don't bother to translate foreign names, particularly if they're in English, a language most Reçuecians study in school.)

How does le loi Kazemi affect Reçuecian Football, the entity that was largely responsible for this change in the first place? To quite an extent. Every football club in the nation must now be referred to in the local language of that club. Those who have followed Reçuecian sportswires in the past may not even recognize some of the names being used, and important acronyms have changed as well. Therefore we are providing a handy translation guide, including the old translated names side by side with original names which you will now be seeing.

Translations
National Organizations
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English Translation                                   French Name
Reçuecian National Football Association               Fédération Nationale Reçuecienne de Football
Reçueçn National Football Team                        Équipe Nationale de Reçueçn de Football
Reçueçn National Football League                      Ligue Nationale de Reçueçn de Football
First League                                          Championnat de Reçueçn de Football (Le Championnat)
Second League                                         Deuxième Championnat de Reçueçn de Football (Deuxième Championnat)
The Unicorns                                          Les Licornes
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German Name                                           Italian Name
Reçueçer Fussballverband                              Federazione calcistica nazionale di Reçueçn
Reçueçische Fussball-Nationalmannschaft               Nazionale di calcio di Reçueçn
Reçueçer Fussball-Nationalliga              	      Lega nazionale di calcio di Reçueçn
Reçueçer Fussball-Meisterschaft     		      Campionato di calcio di Reçueçn (Il Campionato)
Zweite Reçueçer Fussball-Nationalliga (Zweite Liga)   Secondo Campionato di calcio di Reçueçn (Secondo Campionato)
Die Einhörner                                         Gli Unicorni

N.B. Although names are provided in all three official languages, French is the majority language, spoken by about half
of Reçuecians as a first language. The French names will be most common, and likewise with the acronyms.

Acronyms
English Translation                             English       French      German       Italian
Reçuecian National Football Association         RNFA          FNRF        RFV          FCNR
Reçueçn National Football Team                  RNFT          ENRF        RFNM         NCR
Reçueçn National Football League                RNFL          LNRF        RFM          CCR

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French Teams
English Translation              French Name            [Full Name]
Annedine Sporting	         Sportive Annedine	[Association Sportive de Annedine]
Associated Savoie	         Savoie Associée	[Équipe de Savoie Associée]
Bonneville Sporting	         Bonneville Sportif	[Bonneville Club Sportif]
Chapel-Field House               Hôtel Chapelle-Pré	[Hôtel Chapelle-Pré]
Col-De-Môse                      Col-de-Môse	        [Col-de-Môse Football Club]
Geneva Lake-Side                 Genève Bord-de-Lac	[Stade Genève Bord-de-Lac]
Hoping FC	                 FC Hoping		[Football Club de Hoping]
Lampadaires Associated	         Lampadaires Associés	[Lampadaires Associés]
Reçueçn Raptors	                 Les Raptors		[Les Raptors de Reçueçn]
Renting ASC	                 ASC Renting		[Association Sportive et Culturelle de Renting]
Ville-Sur-Rivière	         Ville-sur-Rivière	[Football Club Ville-sur-Rivière]
West Canton Eagles	         Canton-Ouest		[Union Sportif Canton-Ouest]

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German Teams
English Translation              German Name            [Full Name]
Bayern Heidelberg		 Baden Heidelberg	[Sportverein Baden Heidelberg]
Hamwich FC			 FC Hamwich 89		[Fussballclub Hamwich 89]
Hanting FC			 FC Hanting		[Fussballclub Hanting]
Harrim FC			 FC Harrim		[Fussballclub Harrim]
Heldingen			 Heldingen 1919 	[Sportclub Heldingen 1919]
Hesse Sporting			 Sportverein Hesse	[Sportverein Hesse]
Sporting Saint-Carl		 Sportclub St. Karl	[Sportclub Sankt Karl]
Stomford			 Stomford 1904		[Fussballclub Stomford 1904]
Zimmerich FC			 FC Zimmerich		[Fussballclub Zimmerich]

N.B. The name of Baden Heidelberg had long been mistranslated. The club, of course, is not located in the German state
of Bavaria (Bayern), but rather just across the Rhine from Boruncia (Basel, pre–1337) next to the German state of Baden.

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Italian Teams
English Translation              Italian Name
Alpine Armageddon                Assalto Alpino
Puits Tunnellers		 Scavatori di Pozzi

Other Teams
These teams' names are spelled the same in English and each team's language. Here we provide the names of these teams in full.

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French Teams
Name                             Full Name
Actwell				 Club Athlétique d'Actwell
Arly				 Stade Arlois
Association Genève		 Association Sportive de Genève
Canting-Aexwell			 Olympique de Canting-Aexwell
Écho SC				 Écho Sporting Club
Reçueçn FC			 Reçueçn Football Club

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German Teams
Name                             Full Name
Boruncia		 	 Fussballverein Boruncia 1894
Ramton			 	 Sporting Ramton
Renwyll				 Sportverein Renwyll
Slynwell			 Fussballclub Slynwell

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Italian Teams
Name                             Full Name
Cinizio				 Società Sportiva Cinizio
Itrino				 Itrino Calcio
Tyvania				 Associazione Calcio Tyvania

Out of Context note: Immense thanks to Savojarna and Megelan for their assistance with translation to Swiss German and Italian respectively. I couldn't have done this without their help, and any mistakes are places where I ignored their input. And as always, thanks to Fujai and The Plough Islands for their support and willingness to let me word vomit in their discord inboxes.

by **Recuecn** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:24 pm

The big news for Reçuecian football fans this off-season was not, in fact, le loi Kazemi. The law was a national event, which had only a tangential effect on the game for locals. Its main influence was on the way Reçuecian football will be reported on in the future, especially to English-language audiences. No, the big news in Reçueçn was that the FNRF has finally doled out punishment for the three teams involved in the promotion/relegation scandal at the end of the LNRF's second season.

The fact that it has taken only two seasons for the FNRF to determine its response to the scandal might seem acceptable for something of this scale, or even impressive: after all, the scandal only hit the news in the third season, and consequences for the teams involved in the wrongdoing are now being handed out after the conclusion of the fourth. However, the FNRF's response is a lot more disappointing than that once one remembers the contest.

For starts, it was during the third season of the LNRF that it ceased operations. Reçuecian football essentially went on hiatus: no league play, no international competition, and a dormant governing body. The ENRF played out its qualifying matches for the 73rd World Cup, and wouldn't be back for another ten. However, the FNRF, although dormant, was never dissolved, so the organization ought to have had plenty of time to figure out its internal problems. The opportunity was there again when the new Reçuecian ministry of sport kick-started the Ligue Nationale again and helped the FNRF reestablish itself. But nothing was done. It wasn't until after the ministry got a seat on the FNRF's executive board (in what almost amounted to a hostile takeover) that there would be voices within the federation pushing for justice.

Even then, the penalties the federation would hand out would not be universally acclaimed. It was not that they seemed too weak; if anything, some thought they were too harsh. But the consequences handed down seemed at once inconsistent and too general. The punishments were not tailored to what specific teams had done, yet different teams were still affected differently.

So what actually was the scandal that led to this, and what were the eventual consequences? What went on behind the scenes? Why did it take the FNRF so long to do anything about it? The story is a sordid one, revealing the shadowy side of Reçuecian football, and remembering dark days.

The federation was complicit from the beginning. Each team in the ligue nationale had a vote, even if only the seven founding clubs sat on the executive board and held vetoes. But this created a dangerous circular system of institutional dependency, where the clubs competing in the ligue system made up that system's own governing body. If the league made a decision the clubs didn't like, the clubs would have their FNRF representatives do something about it and hand down new instructions to the league. So the clubs were not afraid to push for their own individual interests within the federation.

This reached its peak after the second season of the LNRF. Three clubs, all scheduled to play in the deuxième championnat the next season, got together and decided they could work together to simply go around the promotion/relegation system and play in le championnat in the fourth season. Two of these clubs, Écho SC and Hôtel Chapelle-Pré, had just finished in the bottom of le championnat and were scheduled to be relegated. But the club responsible for organizing and initiating the plan was Arly, who had come fifth in le deuxième championnat and were not looking at any strong hope for promotion in the next couple seasons. Club officials at Arly reached out to Écho and Hôtel Chapelle-Pré after calculating that together, the three teams would gain enough extra revenue by playing in the first, rather than second tier, to be able to bribe FNRF voters and league officials, and still make a profit.

It was an open secret within the FNRF then that these three clubs had essentially paid their way to a spot in le championnat for the third season. Not everyone was happy about this, but the clubs levied enough political and financial power on representatives within the federation to keep the body from doing anything to stop them from bribing league officials. Thus the LNRF changed the calendar, swapping which teams were meant to compete in which division, before they published the finalized schedule.

Of course, those who were most upset about this were the teams that missed out on a spot in le championnat due to the reshuffling. Not a single one of the teams who had finished in the top three of le deuxième championnat—normally all eligible for promotion—would find themselves competing in the top tier the next season. This included Col-De-Môse, the winner of the league, as well as Baden Heidelberg and Actwell. The outcry among the fans was huge, but the clubs themselves, unwilling to boycott the the season, found themselves with little agency to fight back. Arly and the other clubs had been careful to manipulate payments and votes in such a way that their activity, while clearly against the spirit of the law, was not illegal, although it did probably break every FNRF and LNRF bylaw on the books.

The LNRF published a statement saying that they had "rescheduled competitions due to a combination of scheduling concerns and organizational unpreparedness in certain clubs for top tier competition, with a view toward the betterment of the league system as a whole", but fans across the country knew this was a load of baloney. The announcement had been made only a couple weeks before the season was set to begin, and there had been no previous warnings or indications. In fact, much of what the league said was palpably false: Col-De-Môse was much more ready for top-tier play than Écho SC was, even if the latter had just completed two seasons in le championnat. But there seemed to be nothing to do about, so the fans complained and protested at games, but the season started.

And then stopped.

Perhaps the corruption had been a warning sign. But halfway through the season the LNRF determined it wasn't financially stable and could no longer continue operations. It dissolved, leaving moot the entire question of which club was in which tier.

But then, of course, came the ministry of sport. Part of the new minister's self-given mandate was to resume league play as soon as possible, so he instructed the FNRF to refound the LNRF as if it had never dissolved, and to pick up where they left off without delay. The league grabbed the standings as they had been at the moment the season was abandoned, and sent the teams right back out to finish the season. No mention was even made of the fact that some of those teams were playing in the wrong season. The fans didn't complain so much anymore. They were just happy to have football again. And of course, it helped that the new minister of sport was a vocal Hôtel Chapelle-Pré fan.

However, the minister also had grand plans to reform the FNRF. To keep its position as the sole football governing body in Reçueçn, the federation had to agree to allow representatives on its governing board from the government and other entities outside of the thirty-six teams that originally comprised the FNRF. And that meant that the teams could no longer cover for each other when they wanted to pull stunts such as the one Arly, Écho, and Hôtel Chapelle-Pré had pulled.

It was of course the new ministry of sport representative within the federation who led the charge for consequences for the corruption. Jeanne Chartray, who'd been appointed by Lassalle, the minister of sport, after spearheading reform negotiations with the federation, was a political journalist and always ready to dig at someone's past to reveal their misdeeds. Soon, more and more details about what had transpired came to light—the backroom deals, cash emoluments, rigged votes. The public followed the revelations with rapt attention, waiting for the moment that the wrongdoers would get their comeuppance.

Of course, in the meantime, the situation had changed. Col-De-Môse had won le deuxième championnat a second consecutive time—a supposedly impossible feat—to ensure that they did finally make it to the top, while Écho once again finished in the relegation zone and dropped out of le championnat. Arly had performed better than they were expected to, and by the end of the fourth season, had finished sixth, in competition for IFCF spots. The federation wasn't exactly sure what kind of punishment was fitting, either. Something big, surely, but the teams weren't all in identical situations, so they couldn't all be treated the same way.

In the end, then, the final criticism of the federation's delayed punishment was that the one-size-fits-all consequences they handed out did not, in fact, equally fit all the perpetrators. A ten million guilder (12.5M NSD) fine was levied on each of the offending clubs, with the proceeds to be go in part to the FNRF itself, in part to a new anti-corruption/fair-play initiative, and in part to the three clubs who had missed out on top-tier play as a result of the corruption. Of course, these punishment did not take into account the financial status of any of these six clubs. Furthermore, offending clubs still in the top tier would be relegated, while victims still in the second tier would be promoted in their place, but Écho SC had since been relegated anyway, and Baden Heidelberg had earned promotion on its own, so this part of the decision merely skipped over them entirely. The FNRF did little to address the shortcomings of its decision, as if blissfully unaware of its simplistic nature. However, fans are hoping that this will enable us to leave this entire episode behind us and move forward. The reforms that have happened in the federation since these events are encouraging, as well as new laws and programs both within and without Reçuecian soccer, to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.

by **Recuecn** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:04 am

LNRF Season Five Preview

Le Deuxième Championnat

Scavatori di Pozzi

Roster
Manager: Gilles Archer
Assistant Manager: Elogio Tuscano

Starters

#1 Bernhart Herbig (GK), #3 Anselmo Calabrese (LB), #4 Sostene Baldassari (CB), #5 Fausto Alderisi (RB), #6 Giampaolo Altamura (AM), #10 Gervasio Nannini (LM), #11 Albèrt Lamar (LW), #14 Pierre-Louis D'Amboise (RM), #18 Oliver Weiz (RW), #20 Hubert Quint (CF), #26 Erhard Bödeker (CM)

Reserves

#2 Emmanuel Houdin (DM), #7 Siricio Palleschi (ST), #8 Beniamino Rizzo (RW), #9 Renzo Cremona (CF), #12 Isembart Grouchet (CB), #13 Joël Berengar (RB), #16 Ivan Michelsen (LM), #17 Natanaele Agnelli (GK), #21 Jackson Bristol (LW), #22 Iñizio Hurzurigarai (SW), #25 Connor Vogt (DM), #28 Roméo Chausson (AM)

Scavatori di Pozzi are perennially at the bottom of the totem pole, if the LNRF were ever to allow promotion/relegation between le deuxième championnat and any Reçuecian semi-professional or amateur leagues, they'd certainly be the first to go down.

Les Raptors

Roster
Manager: Frank Winsome

Starters

#1 Benjamin Evans (GK), #2 Jonathan Leblond (SW), #4 Garrett Burton (RB), #5 Jordan Cartier (LB), #9 Kai Jespersen (ST), #10 Gerwald Brandis (CM), #11 Aaron Chapuis (LW), #16 Ignace Crozier (RM), #19 Gustave Devillers (CB), #27 Edmond Léger (RW), #28 Sarle de Vere (LM)

Reserves

#3 Julien Valluy (AM), #6 Julius Hector (DM), #8 Matthew Bowers (AM), #12 Rasiphe Caillot (DM), #18 Ludovic Courbis (LB), #20 Alviero Anello (AM), #21 Remy Soyer (RB), #22 Christopher Subercaseaux (LM), #23 Pons Lesauvage (RM), #24 Cédric Aubert (LW), #25 Nathan Crevier (CF), #26 Shane Parkin (AM)

As one of the teams from the nation's capital, les Raptors ought to be able to put enough butts in seats to to fund a better level of performance than they ever show. Of course, competition for fans in Reçueçn City is incredibly competitive. But les Raptors have only their own disappointing selves to blame.

Assalto Alpino

Roster
Manager: Bill Runkin
Assistant Manager: Ettore Sisti

Starters

#1 Gaspare Castiglia (GK), #3 Gabriel Mitchell (CB), #4 Niels Grunebaum (LB), #7 William Burks (RW), #8 Maynard Hebron (RM), #9 Guis Bonner (CF), #10 Domenic Cobuzzi (AM), #11 Luis Nosske (LW), #14 Élisée Calvet (LM), #16 Marco Sacco (CB), #17 Mauro Terranova (RB)

Reserves

#12 Edmond Cousteau (GK), #15 Claude Gaudin (RM), #18 Porthos Poincaré (DM), #19 Renaud Demaret (ST), #20 Sabino Gronchi (LM), #21 Clemente Gabrielli (LW), #22 Gottlob Blau (ST), #23 Giraldo Rana (RW), #24 Clair Perrault (CF), #25 Tiziano Romagna (CM), #26 Giacinto Bicchieri (RW), #27 Teofilo Corrà (LW), #28 Bastien Battier (CM), #31 Lando Brivio (SW)

The Assalto are another team that will be looking for anything new: nothing they've done since the LNRF began has really worked for them. Their fans would love a reason to celebrate, but are loyal unto the death in any case, so yet another finish at the bottom might not have heavy consequences.

Sportverein Hesse

Roster
Manager: Albert Mengelberg

Starters

#2 Évrard Alarie (CB), #3 Euseo Volino (LB), #5 Osbert Duval (DM), #9 Colin Boffrand (CF), #11 Niko Strobel (LM), #12 Fabien Jacquinot (GK), #15 Phillip Kuchler (SW), #16 Pascal Féret (RB), #18 Achim Lotz (RM), #21 Stanislaus Seydel (LW), #25 Ägid Baum (RW)

Reserves

#1 Angelo Paasche (GK), #4 Vilfredo Li Volsi (RB), #6 Priamo Pellegrino (CM), #7 Ramsey Glenister (CB), #8 Adalwin Höfle (CB), #13 Garrott Ferraro (LB), #14 Georges Sardou (CB), #17 Ignace Rémy (RB), #19 Engelbert Frank (CB), #20 Stanislaus Pracht (LW), #22 Fergus Edison (SW), #23 Fredric Lacefield (CM), #24 Maximilian Schönherr (RW), #26 Serge Chappelle (DM)

What is there to say about Hesse? Some of the worse teams are notable for how much they suck, but Sportverein Hesse is simply forgettable.

Ramton

Roster
Manager: Pierre Bonnot

Starters

#1 Giulio Pavlon (GK), #2 Dwight Peck (SW), #3 Jacob Paulsen (LB), #4 Paul Harding (CB), #5 Bertrand Berger (RB), #6 Alphonse Cochet (CM), #9 Jean-Christophe Lemoine (RW), #11 Bruno Azaïs (LW), #15 Raphael Erhard (RM), #18 Arne Franz (LM), #24 Ulrich Winkler (CF)

Reserves

#7 Ansgar Bloch (DM), #12 Raymond Caron (RM), #14 Patrick Ikeda (CB), #16 Jean Jauffret (LB), #19 Klemens Winkelhock (SW), #20 Othmar Hofmann (LM), #21 Kunz Fellgiebel (RM), #22 Reinhold Madelung (LW), #23 Denis Scharff (LB), #25 Nicolas Koehler (ST), #26 Benedict Breuer (CF), #27 Jean-Joël Leblanc (RW), #28 Jean-Loup Sylvestre (RW), #29 Stephen Medina (DM), #32 Nicola Weyrauch (CM)

Ramton's results hit a new low this season, but on paper it seems like they should be able to perform just a little bit better, at least. A new season and a fresh start will give the chance a team to prove it.

Lampadaires Associés

Roster
Manager: Jean-Pascal Arceneaux

Starters

#1 Cédric Laframboise (GK), #2 Félix Couturier (CB), #3 Ambrogio Badolato (RB), #5 Maurice Jaubert (LB), #9 Igino Leccese (LM), #11 Igor Chevotet (CF), #13 Igon Garaiburu (RM), #21 Hunter Vance (LW), #22 Jean-Baptiste Brochard (RW), #25 Louie Green (SW), #26 Hector Crépin (CM)

Reserves

#6 Dominique Brunet (CB), #7 Lionel Dior (RM), #8 Vincent Blanc (RW), #12 Edouard Veil (GK), #15 Torben Brestrich (CB), #16 Kévin Robillard (ST), #17 Martial Noir (CF), #18 Christian Baume (CF), #19 Èrthu de Bellièvre (LM), #20 Valentin Leblanc (CM), #23 Augustine Denbaars (RB), #27 Siegmund Käutner (SW)

The Lampadaires have slowly been improving, their results getting better and better, little by little, year by year. They'll be hoping to continue that trend and speed it up if possible.

Canting-Aexwell

Roster
Manager: Joël Boffrand

Starters

#2 Timóteo Tomás (LB), #3 Ervin Kuris (SW), #4 Baldassarre Pase (CB), #6 Danial Edison (RB), #8 Bernard Beaulne (RM), #9 Benjamin Couvreur (ST), #11 Raniero Malfitano (LW), #12 Valéry Grinda (GK), #17 Clément Granet (LM), #19 Tancrède Mortimer (RW), #21 Olaf Morgentaler (CM)

Reserves

#1 Meinrad Große (GK), #5 Ildefonso Stagno (RB), #7 Adolphe Geffroy (ST), #10 Eckardt Haushofer (CF), #13 Raphaël Geffroy (CB), #14 Bruno Simon (SW), #15 Edgar Freundlich (LB), #16 Aymeric Mignard (RB), #18 Roch Girardot (RB), #20 Francis Jacquier (LM), #22 Jean-Charles Bourque (RM), #24 Eduard Gerster (AM), #25 Jean Auger (LW), #26 Ludovic Boudreaux (GK)

Canting-Aexwell did well during the qualification league, however many years ago. Since then they've been less than mediocre, solidly in the bottom-mid table of le deuxième championnat. Any kind of change would be nice for them.

Slynwell

Roster
Manager: Hugo Drewes

Starters

#1 Leroy Howe (GK), #2 Engelbrecht Panzer (RB), #3 Roman Bambach (CB), #4 Bastiano Franchi (LB), #6 Ecclesio Cassone (RM), #7 Boniface Boudon (LM), #8 Manuel Gérin-Lajoie (RW), #11 Lucrèce Montgomery (LW), #14 Foster Shelburne (SW), #20 Koloman Ott (CM), #25 Marc-Antoine Marchal (CF)

Reserves

#5 Désiré Milhaud (DM), #9 Jean Badeaux (RB), #10 Luca Bianculli (GK), #12 Denis Berger (GK), #13 Edwin Higgins (CB), #17 Gotthard Walther (LM), #18 Austin Glover (RW), #19 Frankie Spiridigliozzi (RW), #21 Hans-Günther Jung (AM), #22 Erdmann Graf (RM), #23 Harald Schuler (LW), #24 Norbert Beaux (LW), #26 Wieland Kunz (CF)

What is there to say about Slynwell that hasn't already been said? Perhaps that the team name sounds like a Hogwarts house.

Cinizio

Roster
Manager: Fabio Iorio

Starters

#1 Pantaleo Corvi (GK), #2 Jean-Guy Jégou (CB), #3 Burkhard Korsch (LB), #4 Bruno Dubos (RB), #6 Gaspare D'Antona (LM), #7 Carroll Clay (CM), #8 Noé Batteux (RM), #9 Bruno Saldanha (ST), #10 Wilbert Balding (AM), #13 Elvino Buratti (RW), #16 Vodingo Balboni (LW)

Reserves

#5 Boris Aigner (CB), #11 Sigfrido Ferrari (LM), #12 Clemente Commisso (CF), #14 Durante Nicodemo (RW), #17 Erminio Abategiovanni (SW), #18 Aurélien Chausson (SW), #19 Desiderato Albo (SW), #20 Caino Carrara (LB), #21 Narseo De Renzo (CB), #22 Didimo Tesoriero (RB), #24 Costanzo Turati (DM), #25 Lauriano Mastrandrea (ST), #26 Basilio Sordi (CF), #28 Luca Santell (CF)

Cinizio can be proud of what they've accomplished, given their resources. But it still remains to be seen if they can accomplish something to be proud of without having to make a qualifying statement.

Boruncia

Roster
Manager: Henny Muntz

Starters

#1 Baldur Tarr (GK), #2 Amatore Panza (CB), #4 Alexandre Joubert (LB), #5 Chi Drone (RW), #7 Gunther Grünfeld (LM), #8 Steen Hjort (RM), #11 Bernardo Rotolo (LW), #18 Henri Lyon (AM), #22 Bennie Roach (SW), #26 Adalwin Sachs (RB), #29 Kevin Assing (ST)

Reserves

#3 Cullen Salant (CB), #10 Wenzel Hettinger (LW), #12 Ulrich Geller (CB), #14 Enrico Nizzola (LB), #15 Jean-Marie Blondeau (SW), #16 Lif Gjoni (LM), #17 Christian Himmelblau (DM), #19 Clément Leclercq (RM), #21 Lorenz Kornblum (GK), #23 Robin Scheck (SW), #24 Olaf Körver (SW), #25 Jacob Katzmann (LB), #27 Baudouin Lachance (CB), #28 Stéphane Oliver (CF)

Boruncia's results have been on a very slow, but steady decline, every since the original founding of the LNRF. They'll be looking this season to finally turn that trend around.

FC Hanting

Roster
Manager: Burt Renalds

Starters

#1 Mike Rehder (GK), #2 Élisée Naudé (SW), #3 Fernando Pisoni (LB), #4 Emanuel Marcaidagoitia (RB), #5 Égide Bassot (DM), #9 Ataleo Zero (RW), #18 Jo Gerver (CB), #20 Elmo Andreas (LM), #23 Gebhard Reyer (RM), #24 Ferdinando Condello (LW), #26 Leonhard Borchard (ST)

Reserves

#6 Adrian Mannheimer (CM), #7 Mathis Küchler (SW), #8 Paulin Fétique (SW), #10 Finn Mcintosh (CF), #11 Filberto Kholyavenko (DM), #12 Harold Erickson (LB), #13 Oskar Arneth (LB), #14 Karo Beibidea (LM), #16 Coreno Guerra (SW), #17 Hannes Abraham (LB), #19 Mathias Messerli (CB), #21 Carl Mandel (GK), #22 Deodato Cerroni (RM), #25 Gernot Spitznagel (LW)

Burt Renalds (who we swear is a real person! and not someone pulled out of an RLStates rp) is planning to lead FC Hanting to the top of the league, or as he put it when addressing the bigger names in le deuxième championnat, 'we will FC Haunting your dreams.'

FC Hoping

Roster
Manager: Jan Kruspe

Starters

#1 Larry Donovan (GK), #2 Kristian Cobb (CB), #4 Denis Einhorn (RB), #6 Aguinaldo Silvestre (RM), #7 Gerd Bormann (RW), #8 Gedeone Mion (LB), #10 Andrew Mcginn (CF), #13 Bruno Gouin (CM), #18 Justin Sylvestre (LW), #20 Abeau Larousse (SW), #24 Amaranto Bellissimo (LM)

Reserves

#3 Frederik Pihl (CB), #5 Concetto Lagomarsino (CM), #9 Fabien Toutain (AM), #12 Fraunçouès Osmont (GK), #14 Renaud Levasseur (GK), #15 John Brown (RM), #17 Gaëtan Dupuy (RW), #19 Cyrille Appell (ST), #21 Paolo Pierini (RB), #22 Gérard Robiquet (SW), #26 Antero Venezio (LM), #28 Roger Carrell (CM)

After just mentioning the FC Hanting pun, we promise to avoid making the same joke here and talking about how Kruspe's team is FC Hoping for good results. Except, oh wait. It's too late, we already did. Sorry about that.

Canton-Ouest

Roster
Manager: Drake Kicks

Starters

#1 Adalardo Pozza (GK), #2 Till Kesselman (LB), #3 Remy Rossignol (SW), #4 Sebastian Orndorff (CB), #6 Tim Hoenigberg (LM), #9 Remy Jacquemin (ST), #11 Gregorius Hughson (LW), #20 Lucas Pascal (RB), #25 Achille Caiazzo (AM), #26 Corradino Casale (RM), #27 Romuald Bruguière (RW)

Reserves

#5 Jonathan Craig (RM), #7 Tonni Bang (RW), #8 Bernard Grandis (CM), #10 Hervé Botrel (CF), #12 Régis Beaux (GK), #13 Landon Simon (SW), #16 Théo Chausson (LB), #21 Veit Aigner (LW), #22 Reuben Shaw (LW), #24 Tristan Pomeroy (LM), #28 Mauro Stilo (DM), #29 Gaylord Portier (RW), #30 Luc Rigal (GK)

Canton-Ouest play not too far from Reçueçn (the city—all these teams are in Reçueçn the country of course). Their location means they don't compete with the teams in the city for fans, which is both a plus and a minus. Avoiding the competition is probably good, but the city is in fact where most of the fans are. The more rural Canton-Ouest often struggles to fill its stadium.

Arly

Roster
Manager: Ferdinand Blancmagne

Starters

#1 Ansaldo Dolfi (GK), #2 Benedikt Bohn (CF), #5 Nicholas Luhman (RB), #7 Ulpiano Cotroneo (DM), #10 Jalen Reeves (AM), #11 Jason Sandoval (LW), #17 Constantin Pierre (RM), #18 Jean-Marie Bret (CB)

Reserves

#3 Mathias Mossé (RB), #4 Franz Myrthenbaum (RB), #6 Giordano Tivoli (SW), #8 Adalger Schechter (CM), #9 Adalbrecht Neuner (SW), #13 Aymeric Gagne (LM), #16 Adam Senft (LB), #19 Nils Chasalow (SW), #20 Christian Gagneux (LB), #21 Lilian De Villepin (SW), #22 Rémy Traver (GK), #23 Fabien Bernard (RB), #25 Robert Leclair (LW)

Demoted for disciplinary reasons after a couple seasons of promising improvement and a competitive finish in le championnat, Arly's fans are, of course, incredibly upset. But all one can say is that the team truly deserves every bit of the punishment they're getting.

Sportclub St. Karl

Roster
Manager: Edward Knight

Starters

#1 Timo Kaulbach (GK), #2 Maxence Spanghero (SW), #5 Elliott Knobloch (LB), #6 Apollo Goff (LM), #10 Selig Habbal (CF), #14 Santos Clark (LW), #16 Hubert Lafaille (RW), #17 Hugues Delafose (AM), #19 Karl Arbeit (CB), #20 Germain Magnier (RB), #22 Hanspeter Baumgärtner (RM)

Reserves

#3 Médard Anouilh (CM), #4 Matthieu Portier (CB), #7 Louis Duval (LM), #9 Martial Bruneau (ST), #11 Frank Tischendorf (CF), #12 Felix Baumeister (AM), #18 Sieger Andreas (LM), #21 Brandon Hamilton (LW), #23 Jean-Noël LeBeau (RW), #24 Hannes Kohler (CF), #25 Pascal Wehner (ST), #26 Diocleziano Polidoro (GK)

Sankt Karl has been in striking distance of a Globe Cup/Challengers' Cup spot for a while. This may finally be the team's year to make a move.

Écho SC

Roster
Manager: Luis Nebe

Starters

#1 Donte Patton (GK), #2 Davis Savoy (LB), #3 Guido Guidi (CB), #4 Guy Robuck (RB), #5 Dany Malet (SW), #11 Dastid Murati (LW), #14 Matthias Delsarte (RW), #16 Ernest Vernier (LM), #17 Lambert Suess (DM), #20 Florentin Jöllenbeck (RM), #21 Geoffroy Hémery (ST)

Reserves

#6 Charles Gounelle (RB), #7 Bryan Webb (LW), #8 Chad Grimes (LB), #9 Jens Bahnsen (CF), #12 Louis Besnard (LM), #15 Curril Thika (SW), #18 Jonathan Lazard (AM), #19 Félix Kléber (RM), #22 Bastien Gilson (RW), #23 Dante Salone (GK), #24 Edmund Braune (CF), #25 Jordan Beaubois (SW), #29 Jean-Claude Chevalier (RW)

Écho, 'the second team of cheaters,' found that crime didn't pay, even before the FNRF's disciplinary actions were announced. At the end of the third season they found themselves slotted for relegation for a second time (which normally shouldn't be possible). Last season they seriously underperformed, and now that their misdeeds have caught up with them, things aren't looking much better.

FC Hamwich 89

Roster
Manager: Anton Leitner

Starters

#1 Dagny Bernardo (GK), #3 Blake Kring (CB), #9 Cyrille Courbis (LW), #10 Eckehard Rommel (RB), #13 Driton Dervishi (RW), #16 Stanley Johnston (CF), #17 Dale Merlier (DM), #19 Gregor Bäumler (LM), #20 Lars Glück (RM), #22 Norbert Schneiderman (ST), #27 Jonathan Bechtold (LB)

Reserves

#4 Côme Paquin (CB), #6 Edwin Potts (GK), #12 Ludwig Pöpel (CB), #14 Armand Vannier (SW), #15 Édouard Guillaume (SW), #21 Oscar Quaschny (LW), #23 Tobias Goedde (CF), #24 Bert Wallner (RW), #25 Lars Riemenschneider (GK), #26 Timo Ehrenbaum (SW), #28 Eckhard Josten (RB), #29 Friedhold Fromm (LB), #30 Günter Achenbach (LM), #31 August Bäcker (CM)

Competition at the top of le deuxième championnat will be tight this season with extra championnat teams coming down as a result of the corruption scandal finally seeing its consequences. Hamwich, who have always been in le deuxième championnat but have been competing toward the top of the league, taking fourth last year, may struggle if it turns out the other teams are unexpectedly of a higher caliber.

ASC Renting

Roster
Manager: Gotthard Leiner

Starters

#4 Richard Piaget (CF), #5 Kasden Tzelili (GK), #6 Enzo Gounelle (LB), #8 Kunz Brandler (LM), #10 Adalfredo Bongiovanni (CF), #11 Côme Carrel (LW), #19 Germain Duchamp (CB), #23 Étienne Delacroix (RM), #24 Noa Sault (RW), #26 Léonard Bureau (AM), #27 Bastien Cloutier (RB)

Reserves

#1 Edgar Friedrich (GK), #2 Eberardo Cifarelli (GK), #3 Alois Hartknoch (LB), #7 Denis Leclair (LB), #9 Iago Terzis (LM), #14 Gundulf Benoist (RM), #15 Mathis Crevier (LM), #16 Kay Huppert (SW), #17 Jean Geffroy (RB), #18 Hayden Mcdonald (SW), #20 Giuda Lumia (SW), #21 Berndt Rheingold (CM), #22 Ludo Leblanc (CM), #25 Nicodème Segal (DM)

After only a single season in le championnat, ASC Renting are already being relegated back down. They are symptomatic of a wider problem beginning to conern league officials: the disparity between the two tiers of Reçuecian football may be too great. Most teams seem to be solidly locked in one league or the other, with a small handful of the same teams caught somewhere inbetween and flip-flopping back and forth every season. More time is needed to determine if this is a real problem, but federation officials are already discussing possible methods of increasing parity.

Tyvania

Roster
Manager: Giusto Palermo

Starters

#3 Erhard Bergmann (CB), #4 Hanns Haerig (LB), #5 Isaac Chagnon (LM), #6 Wilmer Normann (RM), #7 Alex Russell (RW), #8 Peter Boesen (AM), #9 Ottaviano De Capua (ST), #21 Pankrazio Asuaga (LW), #23 Pelaio Etchegoinberry (GK), #24 Berto Corna (RB), #29 Mauro Stilo (LM)

Reserves

#10 Robert Neese (CF), #11 Lino Reale (LW), #12 Anatol Schult (CM), #13 Zachary Webb (LM), #14 Florentino Crader (CF), #15 Martim Aguiar (LW), #16 Piermarco Mazzarella (RM), #17 Hobert Arledge (DM), #18 Kieran Grant (AM), #20 Sylvain Cailloux (CF), #26 Rory Huber (RM), #27 Guido Ventre (CM), #31 Achille Caiazzo (LW)

Tyvania are in a similar situation to ASC Renting, only rather than flip-flopping twice in a row, Tyvania have just done it for their third time. An interesting note is that the first was at the end of season two when Tyvania lost the league and was then the only team being relegated not to attempt to bribe it's way back into le championnat the next season.

Hôtel Chapelle-Pré

Roster
Manager: Gautier Duval

Starters

#1 Biagio Solazzo (GK), #2 Bernard Wellington (SW), #3 Tobie Beauvau (CB), #4 Niceto Colapietro (DM), #5 Roméo Demaret (CM), #6 Aleandro Scarlata (LB), #8 David Hughes (LM), #11 Wittie Zaleznik (LW), #16 Klaus Klemm (RB), #18 Brandy Petre (RM), #29 Boniface Bellegarde (RW)

Reserves

#7 Gaby Mace (LB), #9 Marlon Daugherty (LB), #10 Erhard Siemon (LM), #12 Kyle Cooley (LW), #13 Vincent Sardou (LM), #14 Bledaret Boja (DM), #15 Nathanaël Messier (RM), #17 Jean-Charles Lortie (CF), #19 Lilian Escoffier (RM), #20 Jeremias Schwann (CM), #21 Arminio Tarro (RW), #22 Christian Goethe (RB), #23 Colin Lazard (SW), #24 Jérôme Chevalier (SW), #25 Édouard Besnard (RM), #26 Robin Oldenberg (LM)

Finally, Hôtel Chapelle-Pré is the last of the three teams sanctioned this season by the FNRF. In the seasons since the scandal they'd slowly been working their way up through le championnat, but as part of their punishment have now been demoted to the second tier. They're listed last here, because they're considered to be taking the spot that would have gone to Col-De-Môse, who happen to be the highest-ranking team to have been relegated from le championnat at the end of last season. Now, of course, Col-De-Môse won't be relegated at all, but instead Hôtel Chapelle-Pré will be competing in le deuxième championnat, were despite the fines and sanctions they have been hit with they are expected to do alright.

Le Championnat

FC Zimmerich

Roster
RNFA Representative: Ben Müller
Manager: Nick Seck

Starters

#1 Helies de Malhortye (GK), #3 Louis Granville (CB), #4 Carter Johannes (LB), #6 Arne Heissler (DM), #7 Jean-Pierre Kaplan (RM), #8 Robert Chéreau (LM), #9 Lamprecht Breitbarth (LW), #10 Valéry Bossuet (RW), #20 Rodolphe Trudeau (SW), #21 Ly Nasser (CF), #27 Nathanaël Trouvé (RB)

Reserves

#2 Aidan Huffman (CF), #5 Soren Ebbesen (RB), #11 Rudolf Assing (RB), #12 Abia Becken (GK), #13 Tristan Blecher (LM), #14 Severo Sicari (LW), #15 Thomas Cerf (RB), #16 Georges Rigal (DM), #17 Sicuro Novara (LB), #18 Médéric Maignart (DM), #19 Vinzenz Wehner (LM), #22 Malte Lobe (GK), #23 Raymond Short (RM), #24 Kennith Merriweather (SW)

Zimmerich used to compete at the top of le championnat and was surprised to find themselves competing at the top of le deuxième championnat last season after everything collapsed for them in season 3. But the team has just barely squeezed back in and will be hoping to be back to its old performance again.

Baden Heidelberg

Roster
Manager: Oliver Grassl

Starters

#2 Alfontso Gabancho (CB), #3 Levi Braney (LB), #4 Josef Stirner (GK), #5 Anatol Fischbein (RB), #7 Florencio Patman (LM), #8 Éric Mignard (CF), #9 Martino Ratto (RW), #10 Maximilien Rossignol (CF), #15 Gaby Chastain (LW), #16 Frankie Edwards (RM), #26 Sigismund Leitgeb (AM)

Reserves

#1 Graziano Piacentini (GK), #11 Enzo Giovannucci (LM), #12 Alex Bruguière (RB), #13 Plutarco Rosselli (RM), #14 Jean Bougie (CB), #17 Jacob Rodenberg (LM), #18 Berend Hammerl (RM), #19 Gaël Garreau (SW), #20 Michael Palme (GK), #25 Emerson Stinchcomb (LM), #27 Arthur Jonke (CB), #28 Tobie Brian (DM), #29 Sandro Bierbaum (RW)

Heidelberg hadn't ever finished lower than fifth in le Deuxième championnat and had already earned its promotion back to le championnat before the FNRF announced that teams held back in the corruption scandal would be getting automatic placement in the top league. The fans understandably feel cheated since nothing else was offered to them instead.

Ville-sur-Rivière

Roster
Manager: Homme Lenom

Starters

#1 Pompeo Pangallo (GK), #2 Gian Marlow (LB), #5 Britt Beaston (DM), #7 Valentine Atwood (RW), #9 Clint Soto (LM), #10 Nico Hattenberger (LW), #13 Platur Kaleci (RM), #17 Friedrich Bronner (ST), #20 Kyle Lawrence (AM), #22 Quirino Lucian (CB), #25 Charles Brugière (RB)

Reserves

#3 Quentin Bethune (LB), #4 Pretash Hoxha (LB), #6 Basile Vaugrenard (DM), #8 Ulpiano Guastella (CM), #11 Fred Lane (RB), #12 Barthélemy Bullion (GK), #15 Cyrille Besson (LM), #18 Claudio Prosdocimi (RW), #23 Melchior Rosenblum (SW), #24 Jayden Hunt (SW), #26 Berto Corna (RB), #28 Nazaire Fontaine (LM)

Ville wil certainly be a team to watch this season, after a series of extreme performances: first winning le championnat, then losing it, then winning le deuxième championnat. It will have to be seen how much they've been hurt by spending a season outside the top tier.

Genève Bord-de-Lac

Roster
Manager: Gaspard Boissieu

Starters

#1 Désiré Mossé (GK), #2 Olaf Dohna (CB), #3 Deodato Passante (LB), #7 Hubert Loupe (RW), #8 Colby Mcneil (CM), #11 Diomede Trevisan (LW), #12 Glenden Terrell (RM), #16 Charles Bachelot (LM), #17 Dexter Durchville (ST), #20 Blaise Leroux (AM), #28 Clovis LeBeau (RB)

Reserves

#4 Aubin Chappuis (LB), #5 Leonhard Ehrenbaum (SW), #6 Arthur Kruspe (SW), #9 Giosuele Sestito (CF), #10 Félix Gide (AM), #13 Ovidio Arrighi (SW), #14 Thomas Marchal (CB), #15 Maxence Verninac (RB), #18 Umile Ammirati (DM), #19 Osmund Bove (CM), #21 Ivan Norris (LW), #23 Jean-Yves Chevotet (LM), #24 Alban LeBeau (RM), #25 Jocelyn Bouhier (RW), #26 Eugène Dupuy (LM), #27 Vivien Kaplan (RM)

Consistency is Genève's strong suit, although its fans probably wish they were consistently a little better—the team has never finished in the top half of the league. But then it's never been relegated either. So you win some you lose some.

Itrino

Roster
Manager: Adone Corio

Starters

#2 Algas Hajdaraga (CB), #3 Ägidius Heissler (LB), #4 Hartmut Nostitz (RB), #5 Salim Condenzio (DM), #7 Herman Acker (RW), #8 Johann Reyes (LM), #11 Blaine Porter (LW), #12 Frontiniano Arata (GK), #19 Gervais Jacquemin (ST), #27 Hans Jonke (RM), #31 Garimberto Mastronardi (AM)

Reserves

#6 Hector Bullion (CM), #9 Erik Hewitt (LB), #10 Aristotele Vitrano (CF), #13 Adolfo Pizzimenti (SW), #15 Viviano Vars (SW), #16 Gonerio Alu (CB), #17 Gioberto Taravella (RW), #18 Anselm Pellegrino (LM), #20 Agazio Castro (RB), #21 Gérôme Lozé (LW), #22 Matroniano Nelli (RM), #23 Bruno Chapuis (GK), #24 Gérald Vandame (RW), #25 Gillo Scianna (LB), #26 Carmine Di Nardo (CF), #28 Ulpiano Carleo (ST), #29 Eraldo Del Negro (CM), #32 Mattia Zagami (DM)

As always, Itrino is Italian-speaking Reçueçn's best (and now with Tyvania relegated, only) hope for some kind of victory in le championnat. On paper, the team doesn't look ready to really compete at the top of the league, but its fans are believers.

Renwyll

Roster
Manager: Denis Leroux

Starters

#2 Jean-Philippe Deniau (RB), #3 Alfons Metz (LB), #4 Norman Bright (CB), #10 Pascal Planque (CM), #11 Leon Stock (LW), #12 Félicien Brodeur (RM), #13 Erich Ferber (CF), #15 Aubert Le Clerc (SW), #18 Lewis Richfield (LM), #21 Calanico Di Martino (GK), #23 Edvard Batterton (RW)

Reserves

#5 Jedidiah Lynn (DM), #6 Christoph Kneller (LB), #7 Eliseo Episcopo (AM), #8 Van Kubiak (AM), #9 Edoardo Rocchi (CB), #14 Taylor Lee (LW), #16 Nathanaël Cailloux (LW), #17 Lee Cash (RW), #19 Adalberto Voltolini (ST), #24 Lexoti Izcara (RW), #27 Robin Serrano (RW), #28 Lauge Vinther (LW)

Renwyll (not to be confused with Slynwell, although we know it's the same vowels, just swapped) did noticeably worse than usual last system. Previously, they were known for winning fourth place in le championnat since as long as it had existed. They'll want to rekindle that tradition this year. Of course it won't be easy going, but it might be possible.

FC Harrim

Roster
Manager: Wolfram Voight

Starters

#1 Estienne de Chefderue (GK), #2 Cameron Richards (RB), #3 Emanuele Cutrona (SW), #4 Timothé Dieudonné (LB), #5 Émeric Chappelle (DM), #8 Bert Häring (LM), #9 Erwin Tolkien (RM), #10 Cirillo Vrtilek (RW), #15 Étienne Cruise (CB), #17 Antonio Albertini (RW), #18 Matthäus Behrend (LW)

Reserves

#6 Gaétan Gribelin (SW), #7 Dale Green (AM), #11 Xavier Baillieu (DM), #12 Frank Jennings (SW), #13 Tristan Kempf (CF), #14 Erro Ainciburo (CM), #16 Rino Bennardo (ST), #19 Meinhard Wahner (LB), #20 Sigmund Kayserling (AM), #21 Aldo Janus (SW), #22 Claudio Prosdocimi (CB), #24 Roger Rosenberger (GK), #26 Quirin Voss (RB), #29 Harvey Macdonald (LW)

I feel sorry for anyone whose parents name them Wolfram. And if your last name is Voight, that's just adding insult to injury. FC Harrim's manager seems to take it good naturedly, a displaying his good, patient character—also needed to be able to put up with his teams tantalizing upper-mid table finishes in le championnat.

Savoie Associée

Roster
RNFA Representative: Jonathan Avoirpieds
Manager: Marc Voyard

Starters

#1 Guiscardo Cirillo (GK), #2 Adalbrecht Taube (RM), #3 Touénot Mandeville (CB), #4 Abbondio Brunelli (LB), #5 Carolus Von der lippe (RB), #6 Anderson Belanger (CM), #8 Linus Feulner (AM), #10 Auguste Chéreau (CF), #11 Maximilien Carbonneau (LW), #14 Abeau Rouanet (RW), #22 Antoine Brousseau (LM)

Reserves

#7 Ugolino Sanfelippo (CM), #9 Tom Thompson (SW), #15 Émilien Boutet (LW), #16 Alban Grosjean (CB), #17 Djeferson Leloup (RB), #18 Jordan Boyle (AM), #19 Isaïe Asselineau (LB), #20 Franck Côté (ST), #24 Justin Cahun (GK), #25 Ruben Breiner (SW), #28 Étienne Gainsbourg (RM), #29 Abraham Vallotton (RW)

To Savoie fans, every year they're locked in a desperate struggle to the death as they try to improve on previous performances and rise above the rest to nab a berth for internatinal play. To outsiders, they're mid-table filler.

Col-de-Môse

Roster
Manager: Michel Montsaint

Starters

#1 Christopher Kirkland (GK), #3 Sébastien Bougie (SW), #4 Claude Courtet (CB), #5 Jayson Compton (LB), #6 Jordyn Myers (DM), #8 Brenton Krahn (CM), #15 Constantino Andrade (LM), #17 Ursmaro Previti (RM), #20 Xavier Abadie (CF), #21 Norbert Schneiderman (ST), #26 Amerigo Linardos (RB)

Reserves

#2 Bernhard Gellner (AM), #7 Cédric Hachette (CM), #9 Maxence Bonnet (CF), #10 Robert Milhaud (AM), #11 Jörn Schädler (RB), #12 Corradino Casale (LB), #13 Diodoro Alleva (RB), #14 Kilian Waldow (RB), #16 Lars Glück (LW), #18 Günter Achenbach (RW), #19 Jordan Beaubois (CF), #22 Casimiro Castro (GK), #23 Dylan Beaubois (RM), #25 Thibaut Massé (LM)

Col-de-Môse is listed here as they're considered to have taken Hôtel Chapelle-Pré's spot in the league. Col-de-Môse is excited not to be relegated after all, after losing a close relegation battle last season, but it may only have been postponed by one season, as the team may still not have learned the tactical lessons it needed to.

Stomford 1904

Roster
Manager: Marlin Vanbuskirk

Starters

#1 Francis Arceneaux (GK), #2 Earl Randall (SW), #3 Damien Jennings (RB), #4 Paulin Bourguignon (LB), #5 Miché Thomas (CB), #7 Narciso Venturo (LM), #11 Achill Weber (LW), #14 Björn Heilmann (CM), #18 Wilfried Bauman (RM), #22 André Courtial (RW), #26 Samuel Rademacher (CF)

Reserves

#6 Norberto Cruz (DM), #8 Jacob Pippen (AM), #9 Ronald Kingery (RW), #12 Jâcob Seymour (RM), #13 Maxime Pierlot (RB), #15 Murilo Bento (CB), #17 Richard Morin (LM), #21 Marc Schöner (LW), #23 Poul Milone (GK), #25 Norbert Heinecke (CB), #27 Elias Tugendhat (ST), #29 Bernardo Nascimbene (CM)

The most notable name on this roster is Paulin Bourguignon, who plays for the Reçueçn national football team. Every year Ramton fans hope that he can carry the entire club on his back. He can't quite.

Actwell

Roster
Manager: Hyron LeBouffe

Starters

#1 Damien Bocuse (GK), #4 Elmer McPherson (RB), #5 Benjamin Murray (CB), #7 Ethan Marsh (RW), #9 Mason Sharp (CF), #10 Antonia Desilva (AM), #11 Gianpaolo Serio (LW), #13 Benoît Beaufort (LB), #16 Brandon Harper (RM), #19 Léon Bélanger (LM), #26 Serge Caron (CF)

Reserves

#2 Omer Barthet (LB), #3 Oscar Best (LB), #6 Abélard Renou (CM), #8 Ellis Russell (DM), #12 Niko Rehberg (GK), #14 Winoc Bureau (LM), #15 Paul Heintze (RB), #17 Simon Roux (RM), #20 Josselin Victor (RM), #21 Hugues Berger (CF), #22 Engelbert Boesch (LW), #23 Samuel Gailey (LM), #24 Léonard Gauthier (RW), #25 David Speckmann (AM)

Actwell is the final team directly affected by the corruption scandal: they've been promoted and taken Arly's spot. However, Actwell is almost definitely unready for competition at this level, even with the generous compensation package received from the FNRF (funded by the fines paid by Arly and others).

Sportive Annedine

Roster
Manager: Jérôme Condui

Starters

#1 Warinfreid Quièvremont (GK), #2 Parmenio Tomasino (LB), #3 Arden Kranz (RB), #4 Arnold Todd (CB), #5 Égide Leroux (SW), #6 Ansquetil de Bethencourt (DM), #7 Gallien Mortimer (RM), #9 Florent Brunet (ST), #17 Quentin Bourreau (LW), #19 Kasimir Böcker (LM), #24 Richard Longchambon (RW)

Reserves

#8 Frank Goff (CM), #10 Valentino Rais (LB), #11 Fabio Molitor (RB), #12 Raymond Bissonnette (AM), #13 Joesph Stillson (RM), #14 Eduardo Tavares (RB), #15 Yannick Janvier (RW), #16 Gauvain St Pierre (GK), #18 Ottmar Huffman (CB), #20 Sacha Deniel (RM), #21 Joshua Barr (AM), #22 Asurdi Balinaga (ST), #23 Jeffry Heist (DM), #25 Corey Howell (RW), #26 Rüdiger Grünspan (CM), #27 Jean-Yves Gaume (RB)

It will most likely be the top five teams fighting the battle for first this season, and Annedine is the first of these (which means they finished last of the five last year). They are also the only one of the five without any national team players, so good luck to them.

Heldingen 1919

Roster
Manager: Marius Hecher

Starters

#1 Jannick Bechtholdt (GK), #2 Stefan Beckmann (LB), #7 Adalbert Mummert (RW), #9 Ylljet Amiti (ST), #10 Theodore Dolloway (AM), #11 Dominic Cecchi (LW), #14 Barnabus Mercer (RB), #15 Luc Pélissier (LM), #17 Rodney Donovan (RM), #22 Reynaldo Stong (CB), #29 Jonas Hirtreiter (DM)

Reserves

#6 Taylor Dunlap (CM), #8 Ingolf Nowitzki (LM), #12 Pete Crace (GK), #13 Étienne Duchamps (LB), #16 Jaxen Lamb (CM), #18 Waldemar Weintraub (RM), #19 Alban Pelletier (CF), #20 Gregor Grabner (ST), #21 Gérôme Suchet (LW), #25 Turstin Mayoh (CB), #26 Yraid Yassun (CM), #27 Helibert Wolf (RW), #28 Pierre-Antoine Saint-Yves (RW)

Bonneville Sportif

Roster
Manager: Guillaume Delafosse

Starters

#1 Richard Beaumanoir (GK), #2 Dillon Fry (RB), #3 Axel Borup (SW), #4 Archimede Lenzi (LB), #5 Ghislain Archambault (CB), #6 Andreas Masur (CM), #15 Niko Groos (LM), #19 Jérémy Colbert (CF), #21 Sylvain Bazalgette (LW), #26 António Do Rosário (RW), #27 Merle Pharr (RM)

Reserves

#7 Casto Camardo (AM), #8 Archibald Deahguj (DM), #10 Valéry Derocles (RB), #11 Josef Hoffman (CB), #12 Josué Bourgeois (SW), #13 Miguel Clements (DM), #14 Yann Babineaux (LW), #16 Jean-Claude Côté (LB), #17 Jordan Sullivan (RM), #18 Gustave Lacan (ST), #20 Thibaud Gérald (RW), #23 Johann Hofmeister (LB), #24 Conrad Krause (LM), #25 Paulin Bernier (LW), #28 Armand Soyer (CB), #29 Denis Jacquemin (RB), #30 Koloman Gehrig (LM), #31 Didier Regnard (RM)

Two third-place finishes have Bonneville wanting more. They're definitely capable of getting it, too, if luck is on their side. Look out, Champions' League.

Association Genève

Roster
Manager: Jean-Pierre Boulet

Starters

#1 Michael Cooper (GK), #2 Jean-Charles Nee (LB), #4 Ryan Lloyd (RB), #7 Harold Saunders (AM), #10 Frank Franky Adams (CF), #11 Alceste Charbonnier (LW), #15 Klemens Uebelhoer (CB), #17 Michi Duval (LM), #18 Grégoire Leclair (DM), #22 Quentin Gouin (RM), #23 Elmar Weschler (RW)

Reserves

#3 Adam Ohlendorf (DM), #5 Adeodato Doto (SW), #6 Maximilian Brandler (CM), #9 Adrian Hasselvander (ST), #12 Jean-Loup Abbadie (CB), #14 Caleb Evans (LB), #16 William Livingstone (AM), #19 Harold Harry Cherry (SW), #20 Osvaldo Ohler (SW), #21 Maximilian Pfister (RB), #24 Lucien Valluy (CF), #25 Bastien Pomeroy (ST), #26 Heine Pilcz (GK), #28 Jaidyn Jefferson (LM)

Sometimes Reçueçn feels like a two-club country, and if that's the case, then there's no question who those two clubs are, and which one is number two. It's Association Genève, which is basically Reçueçn FCs diametric opposite. Genève goes against what has become seen as 'the Reçuecian way of football' by always being aggressive: on the pitch its players are on a constant, all-out attack. This at least means that even whey they lose the game is sure to be entertaining. But the fans have had enough entertainment: they're sick of being #2 and finally want that #1 trophy.

Reçueçn FC

Roster
RNFA Representative: Bill LaVoyard
Manager: Robby Hincklebacker

Starters

#1 Gerauld Firaut (GK), #2 Leo Beck (SW), #3 John Ward (LB), #5 Jônas de Montchrestien (CB), #6 Roméo Jacquard (CM), #7 Thomas Büchel (RM), #8 Olympe Ryal (RW), #20 Yves Dufour (RB), #21 Bertrand Bonnay (LM), #22 Pasqualino Parodi (DM), #27 Leroy Topham (LW)

Reserves

#4 Lionel Desmarais (RB), #9 Jean-Yves Barrault (ST), #10 William Lawrence (AM), #11 Isaiah Weeks (LW), #12 Rosaire Nicolas (GK), #13 Jonah Montgomery (RM), #14 Hagen Groos (SW), #15 Enzo Simon (ST), #16 Yves Devillers (LM), #17 Nathan Cordonnier (GK), #18 Alfred Guillory (LB), #19 Florian Vaugrenard (CB), #23 Arturo Prosdocimi (DM), #24 Manuel Sauvageau (RM), #25 Aaron Niebuhr (RW)

Reçueçn FC. 'The country's club,' as it was once called. Reçueçn won the league last year—the first nation to win le championnat more than once—and want to do it again. Can they? Yes, definitely. Will they? There's no way of knowing.

Pre-Season

By the time we're ready for le championnat to start, le deuxième start has already been rolling for 8 weeks. There are no truly major surprises, only perhaps that Écho SC is doing as badly as it is: the FNRF punishments seem to be hitting the club pretty hard. But it's really too early to tell. The table is really tight, especially in the middle. At the top Sankt Carl trails Tyvania by a bit more than two games, which probably looks like a bigger deal than it really is. Canton-Ouest is surprisingly in a promotion spot (although admittedly the season proper hasn't even started yet). And of course, in 8 games, Assalto Alpino has only managed to get a single point.

deuxième championnat     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Tyvania                 8    8   0   0    20    5  +15    24
 2 Sportclub St. Carl      8    5   2   1    26   18   +8    17
 3 Canton-Ouest            8    5   1   2    20   14   +6    16
 4 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré      8    4   3   1    19   10   +9    15
 5 Canting-Aexwell         8    5   0   3    19   21   −2    15
 6 ASC Renting             8    4   2   2    12    8   +4    14
 7 FC Hoping               8    4   2   2    20   18   +2    14
 8 Arly                    8    4   1   3    21   18   +3    13
 9 Ramton                  8    3   3   2    20   19   +1    12
10 FC Hanting              8    3   3   2    10   11   −1    12
11 Boruncia                8    3   2   3    17   16   +1    11
12 FC Hamwich 89           8    3   2   3    10    9   +1    11
13 Écho SC                 8    3   2   3    12   13   −1    11
14 Lampadaires Associés    8    3   1   4    15   15    0    10
15 Sportverein Hesse       8    2   3   3     6    7   −1     9
16 Cinizio                 8    2   1   5    15   20   −5     7
17 Slynwell                8    1   2   5     5   13   −8     5
18 Scavatori di Pozzi      8    1   1   6    15   24   −9     4
19 Les Raptors             8    0   2   6     8   16   −8     2
20 Assalto Alpino          8    0   1   7    13   28  −15     1

Champions' League 1st preliminary round
(FVA)  Langmere Green Rovers FC    1–3    Reçueçn FC                (RCN)   0–2   1–1

Challengers' Cup 1st preliminary round
(KSK)                Burnaby SC    1–3    Heldingen                 (RCN)   0–0   1–3
(SCM)            Royal Crown FC    2–5    Bonneville Sporting       (RCN)   1–5   1–0 

Liga B Champions' Trophy 1st preliminary round
(RCN)              Zimmerich FC    1–4    Perobara Barat Rava       (FID)   1–1   0–3

~~~

Champions' League 2nd preliminary round
(ACH)                  AC Lopel    2–3    Reçueçn FC                (RCN)   1–2   1–1 

Challengers' cup 2nd preliminary round
(SVJ)         Energie Thorsborg    4–3    Association Genève        (RCN)   2–2   2–1  
(RCN)                 Heldingen    0–4    Kanshiro Lopunnies        (HIN)   0–3   0–1    
(RCN)       Bonneville Sporting    3–0    Olympia Borograd          (STL)   3–0   0–0

Liga B Champions' Trophy 2nd preliminary round
(XAN)           Ropeland United    5–4    Bayern Heidelberg         (RCN)   1–2   4–2 

~~~

Champions' League 3rd preliminary round
(VIL)          Jungle Strike FC    4–0    Reçueçn FC                (RCN)   2–0   2–0 

Challengers' Cup 3rd preliminary round
(RCN)       Bonneville Sporting    1–8    Lonngeylin Coast          (VIL)   1–3   0–5  

Liga B Champions' Tropy 3rd preliminary round
(RCN)         Ville-Sur-Rivière    3–2    Jaguar Moreda             (VIL)   3–1   0–1

~~~

Challengers' Cup playoff round
(SFX)              El Valle F.C    2–3    Reçueçn FC                (RCN)   0–2   2–1 

Liga B Champions' Trophy playoff round
(TUR)              FC Almintora    5–2    Ville-Sur-Rivière         (RCN)   2–0   3–2

Liga dos Vencedores qualifying round
(PRQ)           Geofinder Guánren    2–4    Reçueçn FC                (RCN)   0–3   2–1 
(RCN)          Association Genève    4–3    Almoren IL                (FJA)   3–3   1–0 

Copa das Confederações qualifying round
(RCN)          Bonneville Sporting    0–3    Royal Standard AFC        (ULG)   0–2   0–1

~~~

Challengers' Cup qualifying round
(RCN)                Reçueçn FC    0–4    Crawford City FC          (COS)   0–2   0–2

Sadly, no Reçuecian teams have made it to the group stages of any IFCF competitions. But given that this is the first time back on the internatinal scene for Reçuecian clubs, there's some good signs. One is Reçueçn FC, who started at the very beginning and made a fairly impressive run through two preliminary rounds before getting knocked into the Challengers' cup playoff round and finding another win there too. Unfortunately for the Challengers' cup the playoff round isn't the last round and Reçueçn still didn't make it into the group stage, proving unable to beat or even score against Cosumar's Crawford City FC in two games. In the end, definitely no IFCF results to really bring home, but a lot of clubs did make it through one or two rounds, which is a good sign, and fairly unexpected when Reçuecians have been out of international club football for so long.

In the FFI, the smaller tournament size meant that winning one home-and-away playoff was enough to go to the group stage. Bonneville sporting was unable to do that against Royal Standard AFC, but Reçueçn FC and Association Genève both were, so there will in fact be international club football for Reçuecians to watch as the season progresses.

by **Recuecn** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 6:05 pm

LNRF Season Five

A reminder on how the season works here in Reçueçn: since le deuxième championnat has more games on the schedule than le championnat, they begin a month earlier so that both leagues can have their final game on the same day. This means that le deuxième championnat's finale usually gets overshadowed by the higher league, but there is more suspense. So "the season" is considered to start on the 9th matchday, when le championnat begins to play its games as well.

Some wins for Tyvania at the beginning of the season, then, meant their lead soon began to appear uncatchable: 30 points to 19 after the 10th game of le deuxième championnat (the third of the full season). The next week FC Hanting had the dubious honor of being the first team to lose a game to Scavatori di Pozzi in 11 games. By the 18th game, at which point the season was a third of the way through, Scavatori di Pozzi at least didn't have the fewest wins, but they were still last place. Assalto Alpino, only one place up, had one fewer win than the Scavatori (so two). In the meantime, Tyvania's lead in first place has increased to 19 points—more than one point per game. The team is clearly showing that they don't belong in le deuxième championnat. Unfortunately, if when they win the league and get promoted, based on past performance they may still be caught in the no-man's-land of performance between the two tiers, and may not do great in le championnat on their return.

deuxième championnat     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Tyvania                18   17   1   0    51    9  +42    52
 2 Sportclub St. Karl     18   10   3   5    45   35  +10    33
 3 Boruncia               18    9   4   5    47   41   +6    31
 4 Ramton                 18    8   5   5    38   35   +3    29
 5 Arly                   18    9   2   7    39   39    0    29
 6 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré     18    8   4   6    40   29  +11    28
 7 Canton-Ouest           18    7   7   4    43   37   +6    28
 8 Cinizio                18    8   3   7    35   32   +3    27
 9 FC Hamwich 89          18    8   3   7    35   33   +2    27
10 FC Hanting             18    7   6   5    28   30   −2    27
11 Écho SC                18    7   3   8    25   28   −3    24
12 Canting-Aexwell        18    7   3   8    40   47   −7    24
13 Lampadaires Associés   18    6   5   7    36   34   +2    23
14 Slynwell               18    7   2   9    19   27   −8    23
15 ASC Renting            18    6   4   8    27   27    0    22
16 FC Hoping              18    5   7   6    39   42   −3    22
17 Les Raptors            18    4   5   9    23   27   −4    17
18 Sportverein Hesse      18    4   4  10    12   25  −13    16
19 Assalto Alpino         18    2   4  12    34   50  −16    10
20 Scavatori di Pozzi     18    3   1  14    25   54  −29    10

Game 1: Reçueçn FC has a disappointing start to their title defense campaign with a loss to Col-de-Môse. The team's fans are sad, of course, because they expected better, but there's no reason to expect that one botched game will set for the season, so no one makes much of it. Ten games into the season, we can look back a little ways and wonder if perhaps we should have. But the second week, things seemed fine: a two-nil win over FC Harrim seemed to show that the previous weak performance had just been a fluke. Ville-sur-Rivière was the only team with two wins in two games, so perhaps their streak of always finishing either dead last or dead first in whichever league they happened to be in would continue.

The title race, however, would shape up to be a tight one. Two games later it was a three-way tie at the top, with Ville even on ten points with Renwyll, which wasn't much of a surprise, and Col-de-Môse, which was a bigger one. The wave of momentum provided by having their relegation canceled in compensation for the promotion that had been stolen from them two season ago was proving more of a boon than the team could have expected, and the reparation payments from the FNRF couldn't have hurt either. So much so that by the time the season was a third of the way over, Col-de-Môse had first place all to itself, with Ville in second. Reçueçn was no higher than 10th, but the real shocker was that Association Genève was in 15th place out of 16. Last season as well Genève had gotten off to a very slow start before coming back to threaten for the title in the very last few games, but this seems even worse. Will they be able to turn it around?

le championnat           Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Col-de-Môse            10    7   2   1    31   17  +14    23
 2 Ville-sur-Rivière      10    7   1   2    20   13   +7    22
 3 Renwyll                10    5   3   2    21   14   +7    18
 4 Savoie Associée        10    5   2   3    19   11   +8    17
 5 FC Harrim              10    5   2   3    13   12   +1    17
 6 FC Zimmerich           10    5   2   3    22   23   −1    17
 7 Genève Bord-de-Lac     10    5   1   4    19   19    0    16
 8 Sportive Annedine      10    4   3   3    19   17   +2    15
 9 Heldingen 1919         10    4   2   4    20   18   +2    14
10 Reçueçn FC             10    4   1   5     9   11   −2    13
11 Bonneville Sportif     10    4   1   5    19   24   −5    13
12 Baden Heidelberg       10    3   2   5    11   14   −3    11
13 Stomford 1904          10    2   2   6    16   20   −4     8
14 Itrino                 10    2   2   6    17   24   −7     8
15 Association Genève     10    2   1   7    21   30   −9     7
16 Actwell                10    1   3   6    21   31  −10     6

Liga dos Vencedores group stage
Group A                              Pld  W  D  L  GF  GA  GD Pts     SZC    MOR    ASG    CHL
1  Szczakowianka Trzebiegoszcz   RTS   6  3  1  2   8   7   1  10      -     3-0    1-1    0-1  
2  Mordov Rogak                  LSP   6  3  0  3  11   9   2   9     3-0     -     0-1    1-3  
3  Association Genève            RCN   6  2  2  2   7   8  -1   8     1-2    2-4     -     1-1  
4  Chalesm FC                    SRS   6  2  1  3   6   8  -2   7     1-2    0-3    0-1     -


Group H                              Pld  W  D  L  GF  GA  GD Pts     BON    LAN    SPA    REC                 
1  CF Bondstad                   TSA   6  3  1  2   9   5   4  10      -     0-1    1-1    3-0  
2  Langtree United               MRC   6  2  2  2   5   5   0   8 *   0-1     -     0-1    2-2  
3  Sparta Kuban                  LSP   6  2  2  2   4   5  -1   8 *   0-2    1-2     -     1-0  
4  Reçueçn FC                    RCN   6  1  3  2   5   8  -3   6     3-2    0-0    0-0     -   
Tie broken by head to head goals scored away from home

International competition for Reçueçn FC and ASsociation Genève, the only two Reçuecian teams to make it into the group stages of any competition this year, was not terribly exciting either, which made sense, given those teams' performance at home. Reçueçn FC won only a single game, CF Bondstd, but in typical fashion drew, drew three of their other five. Genève didn't continue on in the Liga dos Vencedores either, but at least got third in order to be able to get shifted down to the Copa das Confederações round of sixteen rather than eliminated entirely. Hopefully as our teams continue to play in international competition, their performance there will improve.

by **Recuecn** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 7:55 am

LNRF Season Five

Every matchday, the question is, "Who will Tyvania put in their place this week?" Which is why it's so surprising when on matchday 21, Assalto Alpino play out Tyvania to a 3-3 draw. It's only Tyvania's second this season, and the club is still undefeated. So it makes no sense that they would drop points to a team that only had three wins. Tyvania's dominance continues, but Écho SC has begun to catch up in a big way, with only one loss and one draw in ten games. Between the two clubs is Sportclub St. Karl, even with Écho on points. These three have held the three promotion spots in this order since matchday 22. And of course, dead last, as always, is Scavatori di Pozzi.

deuxième championnat     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Tyvania                28   24   3   1    70   18  +52    75
 2 Sportclub St. Karl     28   14   7   7    71   55  +16    49
 3 Écho SC                28   15   4   9    41   34   +7    49
 4 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré     28   14   6   8    57   41  +16    48
 5 Canton-Ouest           28   13   8   7    72   56  +16    47
 6 Slynwell               28   13   5  10    35   37   −2    44
 7 Cinizio                28   12   7   9    51   44   +7    43
 8 Arly                   28   13   4  11    56   55   +1    43
 9 FC Hanting             28   12   7   9    36   41   −5    43
10 Ramton                 28   12   6  10    58   57   +1    42
11 FC Hoping              28   11   8   9    62   59   +3    41
12 Boruncia               28   11   6  11    62   61   +1    39
13 ASC Renting            28   11   5  12    43   43    0    38
14 FC Hamwich 89          28   11   5  12    43   45   −2    38
15 Canting-Aexwell        28    9   6  13    55   66  −11    33
16 Lampadaires Associés   28    8   6  14    52   56   −4    30
17 Les Raptors            28    7   6  15    33   40   −7    27
18 Sportverein Hesse      28    6   5  17    22   45  −23    23
19 Assalto Alpino         28    5   7  16    58   77  −19    22
20 Scavatori di Pozzi     28    3   1  24    37   84  −47    10

Le championnat continues to have much tighter competition than le deuxième championnat, although it's hard to imagine the opposite being true, the way Tyvania's performing. Reçueçn FC and Association Genève have both climbed out of danger for now; although neither of them are much more than a couple games out of the relegation zone, that has more to do with how clustered things are at the middle of the table. Things spread out a bit more among the IFCF berths, but that's because Zimmerich and Ville are tied on points at the top of the league right now, and thing could go either way. Col-de-Môse has dropped down to a very respectable third place, four points back, after drawing Renwyll nil-nil on week 15. Since then they've kept pace very well but have been unable to regain the top spot. As for Renwyll, they're in fifth, one place out of their traditional fourth.

le championnat           Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 FC Zimmerich           20   13   3   4    50   34  +16    42
 2 Ville-sur-Rivière      20   13   3   4    34   23  +11    42
 3 Col-de-Môse            20   11   5   4    47   27  +20    38
 4 FC Harrim              20   10   5   5    24   20   +4    35
 5 Renwyll                20    9   6   5    36   29   +7    33
 6 Sportive Annedine      20   10   3   7    36   30   +6    33
 7 Reçueçn FC             20    9   3   8    24   21   +3    30
 8 Baden Heidelberg       20    8   3   9    21   21    0    27
 9 Association Genève     20    8   2  10    45   43   +2    26
10 Heldingen 1919         20    8   2  10    32   31   +1    26
11 Genève Bord-de-Lac     20    7   4   9    32   43  −11    25
12 Stomford 1904          20    6   4  10    29   34   −5    22
13 Savoie Associée        20    5   5  10    33   41   −8    20
14 Actwell                20    5   4  11    40   55  −15    19
15 Bonneville Sportif     20    5   4  11    28   43  −15    19
16 Itrino                 20    2   6  12    26   42  −16    12

Copa das Confederações round of sixteen
Association Genève (RCN) 2–4 Blasting Beach (QGP)            0-2    2-2

Reçuecian dreams for some sort of international club trophy finally petered out altogether as Association Genève found itself unable to come back at home from their two-goal deficit accrued while visiting Blasting Beach in The Quagpire. A last minute equalizer for Blasting Beach had left Genève fans with the hope that even right before the whistle they might get a third goal to tie up the aggregate. But when their opponents drew even again, the dream was dead. Genève will need to gain five or six places domestically instead, if they want a crack at IFCF or FFI play again next year.

by **Recuecn** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:53 pm

LNRF Season Five

FC Hanting, in ninth place going into matchday 29, would be very happy with their late season rally. Their two big games came late into the season: against Écho SC on matchday 36, and Hôtel Chapelle-Pré for the very last game. Écho solidly dominated Hanting the whole game, finishing with a score of two to zero. This wasn't ideal: had it gone the other way, Hanting would have been up into third place and only a game behind Écho. And of course, this season second place was as good as first: Tyvania had sealed the league as early as matchday 31, with two months left to go in the season. When St. Karl and Hanting both won on matchday 37, it meant that the last promotion spot was still up for grabs on the last day in theory, but Hanting would need a win, and assuming they wouldn't win by 18 goals, they also needed St. Karl to lose. But Hanting's opponent would be Hôtel Chapelle-Pré, only 3 points behind and hot on their heels. Hôtel Chapelle-Pré had lost all their chances for the Liga B Champions' league, but if they found themselve determined for revenge, perhaps, they had the skill to pose a real threat. St. Karl, meanwhile, would be facing Assalto Alpino, a game critics expected to be a walkover.

On the morning of the last day of the season, Timo Kaulbach, St. Karl's starting goalie, woke up in intense abdominal pain. On being rushed to the hospital, he was given an ultrasound and diagnosed with kidney stones. Diocleziano Polidoro, the club's only backup goalie was forced to start, upon which bookies' odds on St. Karl instantly tumbled. That afternoon, as the game progressed, Polidoro let in first one goal and then another, while Assalto Alpino's defense did what no one had expected and stopped their opponents from equalizing after the second goal.

Meanwhile, FC Hanting was finding that Hôtel Chapelle-Pré, playing a game with no meaningful outcome for their own club, was simply not at its best. An unfocused team, a few careless mistakes, and a general lack of effort allowed FC Hanting to confidently finish off the game by the same score as that of the St. Karl-Assalto game, and earn their spot in le championnat the next year.

deuxième championnat     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Tyvania                38   31   4   3    83   24  +59    97
 2 Écho SC                38   23   6   9    59   40  +19    75
 3 FC Hanting             38   19   9  10    57   54   +3    66
 4 Sportclub St. Karl     38   19   8  11    91   74  +17    65
 5 Canton-Ouest           38   16  13   9    89   72  +17    61
 6 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré     38   17   9  12    71   54  +17    60
 7 Slynwell               38   18   6  14    54   50   +4    60
 8 Arly                   38   17   8  13    77   72   +5    59
 9 ASC Renting            38   17   7  14    63   59   +4    58
10 FC Hoping              38   14  11  13    83   79   +4    53
11 Cinizio                38   14  11  13    69   65   +4    53
12 Ramton                 38   15   7  16    72   76   −4    52
13 FC Hamwich 89          38   14   9  15    64   64    0    51
14 Boruncia               38   14   8  16    79   82   −3    50
15 Lampadaires Associés   38   12   9  17    76   77   −1    45
16 Canting-Aexwell        38   12   7  19    67   83  −16    43
17 Les Raptors            38    9   8  21    51   64  −13    35
18 Assalto Alpino         38    8   9  21    70   96  −26    33
19 Sportverein Hesse      38    8   7  23    34   66  −32    31
20 Scavatori di Pozzi     38    4   2  32    46  104  −58    14
Green: Promotion to le championnat, Liga B Champions' League

Reçueçn FC continued its rally begun in the second third of the season as the title race drew to a close. FC Zimmerich, which had held the top spot since week 17, found themselves passed by the capital's biggest team with only one g ame left to go in the season. It didn't seem fair that after leading for almost half the season, the league could be stolen from them right at the end. So the last matchday was sure to be a tense one. The field was in fact tight enough that in theory four teams could still win (although for Ville-sur-Rivière, it wasn't entirely a realistic probability, given their much lower goal differential) and another three teams would be fighting for the last Challengers' cup spot. At the bottom of the league, however, everything had already been decided: Savoie Associée, Actwell, and Itrino would be going down, as had been known since Savoie drew Association Genève last week (a win would've been needed to keep alive any hope of catching Bonneville Sportif on the last day). By this time, this seemed typical for Association Genève, a team that in other years would have had higher expectations: they would just barely finish the league in the top half.

Reçueçn FC's last game was against Bonneville Sportif, so it should have been an easy win; remember that Bonneville had only ensured its safety from relegation the previous week. Yet time after time the Reçuecian offense, led by Leroy Topham, Olympe Ryal, and Thomas Büchel, failed to score. And then, the worst happened: Gerauld Firaut, Reçueçn's-star-goalkeeper, failed to catch a save, and Bonneville's António Do Rosário drove the rebound home. Reçueçn's title defense was slipping away from them.

However, FC Zimmerich's game against Heldingen 1919 wasn't all going according to plan either. Heldingen, a strong team typically in competition itself for IFCF spots—or even the title—was putting up a solid defense, in fact the best defense, as the saying goes: they were scoring goals. When 90 minutes were over, Zimmerich and Heldingen were even on 3 goals a piece, meaning that Zimmerich would stay behind Reçueçn FC on goal differential alone—and only three goals, at that.

In the end, however, neither team would win the title. Col-De-Môse, slotted for relegation last year but kept up as a result of the disciplinary action against Arly and the other corrupt clubs, had entirely turned around their organization to make it to the very top of the league. Here, in their last game, they convincingly handed the usually dangerous Renwyll a 1-0 defeat to pass both Reçueçn FC and FC Zimmerich and win the league (Renwyll, meanwhile, completing their tumble from 5th to 10th in the last third of the season).

Col-de-Môse' title win was a surprise to many, coming from a club that had only declined since its 11th place finish in the qualification league. Yet they became the people's choice. The fairy tale was too good to resist. The same club that had been unjustly kept back after winning le deuxième championnat; the same club that had been forced to win it twice in a row—a theoretically impossible feat—to prove its point and earn promotion; the same club that had immediately been due for relegation again upon finally making it to le championnat; that was the club that had had its relegation canceled as justice for the previous miscarriage of justice; that was the same club that had gotten a second chance, and applied its anger and determination to come all the way back and win le championnat on the very last day of the season. Col-de-Môse, previously an unremarkable, less-than-mediocre club, had won the league. Would this be the start of great things for them?

le championnat           Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Col-de-Môse            30   16   6   8    61   42  +19    54 CL, LdV
 2 Reçueçn FC             30   16   4  10    40   25  +15    52 CC, LdV
 3 FC Zimmerich           30   15   7   8    72   60  +12    52 CC, TdC
 4 FC Harrim              30   15   6   9    37   32   +5    51 CC
 5 Ville-sur-Rivière      30   14   7   9    50   45   +5    49
 6 Sportive Annedine      30   14   6  10    58   53   +5    48
 7 Heldingen 1919         30   13   5  12    53   46   +7    44
 8 Association Genève     30   13   4  13    64   59   +5    43
 9 Baden Heidelberg       30   12   6  12    31   28   +3    42
10 Renwyll                30   10  11   9    48   46   +2    41
11 Genève Bord-de-Lac     30   11   7  12    50   59   −9    40
12 Bonneville Sportif     30   10   7  13    50   60  −10    37
13 Stomford 1904          30    9   8  13    43   49   −6    35
14 Savoie Associée        30    6  11  13    51   62  −11    29
15 Actwell                30    8   5  17    63   83  −20    29
16 Itrino                 30    4   8  18    43   65  −22    20
Blue: League winners, Champions' League
Green: Qualified for international competition
Red: Relegation to deuxième championnat

by **Recuecn** » Wed Jul 08, 2020 9:17 pm

LNRF Season Six Preview

Le Deuxième Championnat

Teams presented in reverse order of Season 5 standings.

Scavatori di Pozzi

Roster
Manager: Gilles Archer
Assistant Manager: Elogio Tuscano

Starters

#1 Bernhart Herbig (GK), #3 Anselmo Calabrese (LB), #4 Sostene Baldassari (CB), #5 Fausto Alderisi (RB), #6 Giampaolo Altamura (AM), #8 Beniamino Rizzo (RW), #10 Gervasio Nannini (LM), #14 Pierre-Louis D'Amboise (RM), #20 Hubert Quint (CF), #21 Jackson Bristol (LW), #26 Erhard Bödeker (CM)

Reserves

#2 Emmanuel Houdin (DM), #7 Siricio Palleschi (ST), #9 Renzo Cremona (CF), #11 Verecondo Roso (LW), #12 Isembart Grouchet (CB), #13 Joël Berengar (RB), #15 Icaro Santarsiero (RW), #16 Ivan Michelsen (LM), #17 Natanaele Agnelli (GK), #18 Mennone Di Fiore (RM), #22 Iñizio Hurzurigarai (SW), #28 Roméo Chausson (AM)

The Scavatorri have improved, if only because they have nowhere to go but up. They consistently put forth performances that compared with the rest of the league are painted as miserable, and we don't expect them to do anything other than come last this year either. Manager Gilles Archer extended his contract for another five (!) years during the offseason.

Sportverein Hesse

Roster
Manager: Albert Mengelberg

Starters

#2 Évrard Alarie (CB), #3 Euseo Volino (LB), #5 Osbert Duval (DM), #9 Colin Boffrand (CF), #11 Niko Strobel (LM), #12 Fabien Jacquinot (GK), #15 Phillip Kuchler (SW), #16 Pascal Féret (RB), #18 Achim Lotz (RM), #21 Stanislaus Seydel (LW), #25 Ägid Baum (RW)

Reserves

#1 Angelo Paasche (GK), #4 Vilfredo Li Volsi (RB), #6 Priamo Pellegrino (CM), #7 Ramsey Glenister (CB), #8 Adalwin Höfle (CB), #13 Garrott Ferraro (LB), #14 Georges Sardou (CB), #17 Ignace Rémy (RB), #19 Engelbert Frank (CB), #20 Stanislaus Pracht (LW), #22 Fergus Edison (SW), #23 Fredric Lacefield (CM), #24 Maximilian Schönherr (RW), #26 Serge Chappelle (DM)

What does Hesse have to look forward to? Not much. Since le deuxième championnat has no relegation, they've never competed for anything meaningful. Don't expect that to change.

Assalto Alpino

Roster
Manager: Bill Runkin
Assistant Manager: Ettore Sisti

Starters

#1 Gaspare Castiglia (GK), #3 Gabriel Mitchell (CB), #8 Maynard Hebron (RM), #9 Guis Bonner (CF), #14 Élisée Calvet (LM), #16 Marco Sacco (CB), #17 Mauro Terranova (RB), #18 Porthos Poincaré (DM), #23 Giraldo Rana (RW), #27 Teofilo Corrà (LW), #31 Lando Brivio (SW)

Reserves

#11 Corrado Scenna (SW), #12 Edmond Cousteau (GK), #15 Claude Gaudin (RM), #19 Renaud Demaret (ST), #20 Sabino Gronchi (LM), #21 Clemente Gabrielli (LW), #22 Gottlob Blau (ST), #24 Clair Perrault (CF), #25 Walther Prantl (LM), #26 Giacinto Bicchieri (RW), #28 Bastien Battier (CM), #29 Tiziano Romagna (CM)

Assalto Alpino are the team that started with the same abyssmal levels of infrastructure and backing as the hapless Scavatori di Pozzi. They've climbed a bit faster, and are hoping to still be able to continue to do so.

Les Raptors

Roster
Manager: Frank Winsome

Starters

#1 Benjamin Evans (GK), #2 Jonathan Leblond (SW), #4 Garrett Burton (RB), #5 Jordan Cartier (LB), #9 Kai Jespersen (ST), #10 Gerwald Brandis (CM), #11 Aaron Chapuis (LW), #16 Ignace Crozier (RM), #19 Gustave Devillers (CB), #27 Edmond Léger (RW), #28 Sarle de Vere (LM)

Reserves

#3 Julien Valluy (AM), #6 Julius Hector (DM), #8 Matthew Bowers (AM), #12 Rasiphe Caillot (DM), #18 Ludovic Courbis (LB), #20 Alviero Anello (AM), #21 Remy Soyer (RB), #22 Christopher Subercaseaux (LM), #23 Pons Lesauvage (RM), #24 Cédric Aubert (LW), #25 Nathan Crevier (CF), #26 Shane Parkin (AM)

Canting-Aexwell

Roster
Manager: Joël Boffrand

Starters

#1 Valéry Grinda (GK), #2 Timóteo Tomás (LB), #3 Ervin Kuris (SW), #4 Baldassarre Pase (CB), #6 Danial Edison (RB), #8 Bernard Beaulne (RM), #9 Benjamin Couvreur (ST), #11 Raniero Malfitano (LW), #17 Clément Granet (LM), #19 Tancrède Mortimer (RW), #21 Olaf Morgentaler (CM)

Reserves

#5 Ildefonso Stagno (RB), #7 Adolphe Geffroy (ST), #10 Eckardt Haushofer (CF), #12 Meinrad Große (GK), #13 Raphaël Geffroy (CB), #14 Bruno Simon (SW), #15 Edgar Freundlich (LB), #16 Aymeric Mignard (RB), #18 Roch Girardot (RB), #20 Francis Jacquier (LM), #22 Jean-Charles Bourque (RM), #24 Eduard Gerster (AM), #25 Jean Auger (LW), #26 Ludovic Boudreaux (GK)

Lampadaires Associés

Roster
Manager: Jean-Pascal Arceneaux

Starters

#1 Cédric Laframboise (GK), #2 Félix Couturier (CB), #3 Ambrogio Badolato (RB), #5 Maurice Jaubert (LB), #9 Igino Leccese (LM), #11 Igor Chevotet (CF), #13 Igon Garaiburu (RM), #21 Hunter Vance (LW), #22 Jean-Baptiste Brochard (RW), #25 Louie Green (SW), #26 Hector Crépin (CM)

Reserves

#6 Dominique Brunet (CB), #7 Lionel Dior (RM), #8 Vincent Blanc (RW), #12 Edouard Veil (GK), #15 Torben Brestrich (CB), #16 Kévin Robillard (ST), #17 Martial Noir (CF), #18 Christian Baume (CF), #19 Èrthu de Bellièvre (LM), #20 Valentin Leblanc (CM), #23 Augustine Denbaars (RB), #27 Siegmund Käutner (SW)

Boruncia

Roster
Manager: Henny Muntz

Starters

#1 Baldur Tarr (GK), #3 Cullen Salant (CB), #5 Chi Drone (RW), #7 Gunther Grünfeld (LM), #8 Steen Hjort (RM), #10 Wenzel Hettinger (LW), #14 Enrico Nizzola (LB), #15 Jean-Marie Blondeau (SW), #18 Henri Lyon (AM), #26 Adalwin Sachs (RB), #29 Kevin Assing (ST)

Reserves

#12 Ulrich Geller (CB), #16 Lif Gjoni (LM), #17 Christian Himmelblau (DM), #19 Clément Leclercq (RM), #21 Lorenz Kornblum (GK), #23 Robin Scheck (SW), #24 Olaf Körver (SW), #25 Jacob Katzmann (LB), #27 Baudouin Lachance (CB), #28 Stéphane Oliver (CF)

FC Hamwich 89

Roster
Manager: Anton Leitner

Starters

#1 Dagny Bernardo (GK), #3 Blake Kring (CB), #10 Eckehard Rommel (RB), #13 Driton Dervishi (RW), #15 Édouard Guillaume (SW), #19 Gregor Bäumler (LM), #20 Lars Glück (RM), #22 Norbert Schneiderman (ST), #27 Jonathan Bechtold (LB), #31 August Bäcker (CM)

Reserves

#2 Wolfgang Ehlers (AM), #4 Udo Stockhausen (DM), #6 Edwin Potts (GK), #12 Ludwig Pöpel (CB), #14 Armand Vannier (SW), #21 Oscar Quaschny (LW), #23 Tobias Goedde (CF), #24 Bert Wallner (RW), #25 Lars Riemenschneider (GK), #26 Timo Ehrenbaum (SW), #28 Eckhard Josten (RB), #29 Friedhold Fromm (LB), #30 Günter Achenbach (LM)

Ramton

Roster
Manager: Pierre Bonnot

Starters

#1 Giulio Pavlon (GK), #2 Dwight Peck (SW), #3 Jacob Paulsen (LB), #4 Paul Harding (CB), #5 Bertrand Berger (RB), #6 Alphonse Cochet (CM), #9 Jean-Christophe Lemoine (RW), #12 Raymond Caron (RM), #18 Arne Franz (LM), #22 Reinhold Madelung (LW), #24 Ulrich Winkler (CF)

Reserves

#7 Ansgar Bloch (DM), #16 Jean Jauffret (LB), #19 Klemens Winkelhock (SW), #20 Othmar Hofmann (LM), #21 Kunz Fellgiebel (RM), #23 Denis Scharff (LB), #25 Nicolas Koehler (ST), #26 Benedict Breuer (CF), #27 Jean-Joël Leblanc (RW), #28 Jean-Loup Sylvestre (RW), #29 Stephen Medina (DM), #32 Nicola Weyrauch (CM)

Cinizio

Roster
Manager: Fabio Iorio

Starters

#1 Pantaleo Corvi (GK), #2 Jean-Guy Jégou (CB), #3 Burkhard Korsch (LB), #4 Bruno Dubos (RB), #6 Gaspare D'Antona (LM), #8 Noé Batteux (RM), #9 Bruno Saldanha (ST), #13 Elvino Buratti (RW), #16 Vodingo Balboni (LW), #24 Costanzo Turati (DM), #26 Basilio Sordi (CF)

Reserves

#5 Boris Aigner (CB), #11 Sigfrido Ferrari (LM), #12 Clemente Commisso (CF), #14 Durante Nicodemo (RW), #17 Erminio Abategiovanni (SW), #18 Aurélien Chausson (SW), #19 Desiderato Albo (SW), #20 Caino Carrara (LB), #21 Narseo De Renzo (CB), #22 Didimo Tesoriero (RB), #25 Lauriano Mastrandrea (ST), #28 Luca Santell (CF)

FC Hoping

Roster
Manager: Jan Kruspe

Starters

#1 Larry Donovan (GK), #3 Frederik Pihl (CB), #4 Denis Einhorn (RB), #6 Aguinaldo Silvestre (RM), #7 Gerd Bormann (RW), #8 Gedeone Mion (LB), #10 Andrew Mcginn (CF), #13 Bruno Gouin (CM), #18 Justin Sylvestre (LW), #20 Abeau Larousse (SW), #24 Amaranto Bellissimo (LM)

Reserves

#5 Concetto Lagomarsino (CM), #9 Fabien Toutain (AM), #12 Fraunçouès Osmont (GK), #14 Renaud Levasseur (GK), #15 John Brown (RM), #17 Gaëtan Dupuy (RW), #19 Cyrille Appell (ST), #21 Paolo Pierini (RB), #22 Gérard Robiquet (SW), #26 Antero Venezio (LM), #27 Roger Carrell (CM), #28 Tony Saunders (CB)

ASC Renting

Roster
Manager: Gotthard Leiner

Starters

#1 Edgar Friedrich (GK), #5 Kasden Tzelili (GK), #6 Enzo Gounelle (LB), #8 Kunz Brandler (LM), #10 Adalfredo Bongiovanni (CF), #11 Côme Carrel (LW), #19 Germain Duchamp (CB), #23 Étienne Delacroix (RM), #24 Noa Sault (RW), #26 Léonard Bureau (AM), #27 Bastien Cloutier (RB)

Reserves

#2 Eberardo Cifarelli (GK), #3 Alois Hartknoch (LB), #4 Ludovic Boutet (SW), #7 Norbert Affré (CB), #12 Lambert Arsenault (DM), #14 Gundulf Benoist (RM), #15 Mathis Crevier (LM), #16 Kay Huppert (SW), #17 Jean Geffroy (RB), #20 Giuda Lumia (SW), #21 Berndt Rheingold (CM), #22 Ludo Leblanc (CM), #25 Nicodème Segal (DM)

Arly

Roster
Manager: Ferdinand Blancmagne

Starters

#1 Ansaldo Dolfi (GK), #2 Benedikt Bohn (CF), #3 Torben Holz (LB), #4 Évrard Bourneuf (LM), #5 Nicholas Luhman (RB), #6 Giordano Tivoli (SW), #7 Ulpiano Cotroneo (DM), #11 Jason Sandoval (LW), #12 Gabriel Henderson (RW), #17 Constantin Pierre (RM), #18 Jean-Marie Bret (CB)

Reserves

#8 Günter Mommsen (RB), #9 Adalbrecht Neuner (SW), #10 Jalen Reeves (AM), #13 Aymeric Gagne (LM), #14 Mathias Mossé (RB), #15 Franz Myrthenbaum (RB), #16 Adam Senft (LB), #19 Nils Chasalow (SW), #20 Christian Gagneux (LB), #21 Lilian De Villepin (SW), #22 Rémy Traver (GK), #23 Fabien Bernard (RB), #24 Adalger Schechter (CM), #25 Robert Leclair (LW)

After the FNRF forced its relegation as a disciplinary measure, Arly really struggled last season. Fans are hoping that they won't be so unlucky twice in a row, but perhaps the lack of form is self-propagating.

Slynwell

Roster
Manager: Hugo Drewes

Starters

#1 Leroy Howe (GK), #2 Engelbrecht Panzer (RB), #3 Roman Bambach (CB), #4 Bastiano Franchi (LB), #6 Ecclesio Cassone (RM), #7 Boniface Boudon (LM), #8 Manuel Gérin-Lajoie (RW), #11 Lucrèce Montgomery (LW), #14 Foster Shelburne (SW), #20 Koloman Ott (CM), #25 Marc-Antoine Marchal (CF)

Reserves

#5 Désiré Milhaud (DM), #9 Jean Badeaux (RB), #10 Luca Bianculli (GK), #12 Denis Berger (GK), #13 Edwin Higgins (CB), #17 Gotthard Walther (LM), #18 Austin Glover (RW), #19 Frankie Spiridigliozzi (RW), #21 Hans-Günther Jung (AM), #22 Erdmann Graf (RM), #23 Harald Schuler (LW), #24 Norbert Beaux (LW), #26 Wieland Kunz (CF)

Hôtel Chapelle-Pré

Roster
Manager: Gautier Duval

Starters

#1 Biagio Solazzo (GK), #2 Bernard Wellington (SW), #3 Tobie Beauvau (CB), #4 Niceto Colapietro (DM), #5 Roméo Demaret (CM), #6 Aleandro Scarlata (LB), #8 David Hughes (LM), #11 Wittie Zaleznik (LW), #19 Lilian Escoffier (RM), #22 Christian Goethe (RB), #29 Boniface Bellegarde (RW)

Reserves

#7 Gaby Mace (LB), #9 Marlon Daugherty (LB), #10 Erhard Siemon (LM), #12 Kyle Cooley (LW), #13 Vincent Sardou (LM), #14 Bledaret Boja (DM), #17 Jean-Charles Lortie (CF), #20 Jeremias Schwann (CM), #21 Arminio Tarro (RW), #23 Colin Lazard (SW), #24 Jérôme Chevalier (SW), #25 Édouard Besnard (RM), #26 Robin Oldenberg (LM)

Hôtel Chapelle-Pré is the other team relegated as part of disciplinary actions, and they too struggled in the deuxième championnat. Hôtel, however, seems more likely to bounce back despite its punishments.

Canton-Ouest

Roster
Manager: Drake Kicks

Starters

#1 Adalardo Pozza (GK), #2 Till Kesselman (LB), #3 Remy Rossignol (SW), #4 Sebastian Orndorff (CB), #9 Remy Jacquemin (ST), #11 Gregorius Hughson (LW), #20 Lucas Pascal (RB), #24 Tristan Pomeroy (LM), #25 Achille Caiazzo (AM), #26 Corradino Casale (RM), #27 Romuald Bruguière (RW)

Reserves

#5 Jonathan Craig (RM), #6 Mathieu Jeannin (LM), #7 Tonni Bang (RW), #8 Bernard Grandis (CM), #10 Hervé Botrel (CF), #12 Régis Beaux (GK), #13 Landon Simon (SW), #16 Théo Chausson (LB), #21 Veit Aigner (LW), #22 Reuben Shaw (LW), #28 Mauro Stilo (DM), #29 Gaylord Portier (RW), #30 Luc Rigal (GK)

Sportclub St. Karl

Roster
Manager: Edward Knight

Starters

#1 Timo Kaulbach (GK), #2 Maxence Spanghero (SW), #5 Elliott Knobloch (LB), #6 Apollo Goff (LM), #10 Selig Habbal (CF), #17 Hugues Delafose (AM), #19 Karl Arbeit (CB), #20 Germain Magnier (RB), #21 Brandon Hamilton (LW), #22 Hanspeter Baumgärtner (RM), #23 Jean-Noël LeBeau (RW)

Reserves

#4 Matthieu Portier (CB), #7 Louis Duval (LM), #9 Martial Bruneau (ST), #11 Frank Tischendorf (CF), #12 Felix Baumeister (AM), #18 Sieger Andreas (LM), #24 Hannes Kohler (CF), #25 Pascal Wehner (ST), #26 Diocleziano Polidoro (GK)

Itrino

Roster
Manager: Adone Corio

Starters

#2 Algas Hajdaraga (CB), #3 Ägidius Heissler (LB), #4 Hartmut Nostitz (RB), #5 Salim Condenzio (DM), #11 Blaine Porter (LW), #12 Frontiniano Arata (GK), #17 Gioberto Taravella (RW), #18 Anselm Pellegrino (LM), #19 Gervais Jacquemin (ST), #27 Hans Jonke (RM), #31 Garimberto Mastronardi (AM)

Reserves

#6 Hector Bullion (CM), #9 Erik Hewitt (LB), #10 Aristotele Vitrano (CF), #13 Adolfo Pizzimenti (SW), #15 Viviano Vars (SW), #16 Gonerio Alu (CB), #20 Agazio Castro (RB), #21 Gérôme Lozé (LW), #22 Matroniano Nelli (RM), #23 Bruno Chapuis (GK), #24 Gérald Vandame (RW), #25 Gillo Scianna (LB), #26 Carmine Di Nardo (CF), #28 Ulpiano Carleo (ST), #29 Eraldo Del Negro (CM), #32 Mattia Zagami (DM)

Last year's bottom side finds itself in le deuxième championnat again for the first time since season one. They'll be hoping their stint in the league is just as short as before.

Actwell

Roster
Manager: Hyron LeBouffe

Starters

#1 Damien Bocuse (GK), #4 Elmer McPherson (RB), #7 Ethan Marsh (RW), #9 Mason Sharp (CF), #10 Antonia Desilva (AM), #11 Gianpaolo Serio (LW), #13 Benoît Beaufort (LB), #16 Brandon Harper (RM), #18 Dylan Vigouroux (CB), #19 Léon Bélanger (LM), #26 Serge Caron (CF)

Reserves

#2 Omer Barthet (LB), #3 Oscar Best (LB), #5 Benjamin Murray (CB), #6 Abélard Renou (CM), #8 Ellis Russell (DM), #12 Niko Rehberg (GK), #14 Winoc Bureau (LM), #15 Paul Heintze (RB), #17 Simon Roux (RM), #20 Josselin Victor (RM), #21 Hugues Berger (CF), #22 Engelbert Boesch (LW), #23 Samuel Gailey (LM), #24 Léonard Gauthier (RW), #25 David Speckmann (AM)

Actwell, having been given a spot as compensation for earlier, during the corruption scandal, not receiving the promotion they had earned, were unprepared for le championnat, and will find themselves exiting again straightaway. Perhaps more time in the second tier is needed to prepare for the highest echelon.

Savoie Associée

Roster
RNFA Representative: Jonathan Avoirpieds
Manager: Marc Voyard

Starters

#1 Guiscardo Cirillo (GK), #2 Adalbrecht Taube (RM), #3 Touénot Mandeville (CB), #4 Abbondio Brunelli (LB), #6 Anderson Belanger (CM), #8 Linus Feulner (AM), #10 Auguste Chéreau (CF), #11 Maximilien Carbonneau (LW), #14 Abeau Rouanet (RW), #17 Djeferson Leloup (RB), #22 Antoine Brousseau (LM)

Reserves

#5 Jean-Marc Bescond (LM), #9 Tom Thompson (SW), #15 Émilien Boutet (LW), #16 Alban Grosjean (CB), #18 Jordan Boyle (AM), #19 Isaïe Asselineau (LB), #20 Franck Côté (ST), #24 Justin Cahun (GK), #25 Ruben Breiner (SW), #28 Étienne Gainsbourg (RM), #29 Abraham Vallotton (RW)

Savoie is another team that started in le deuxième championnat but then moved to the top and got used to it there. No big names on the roster to help them earn their way back.

Le Championnat

FC Hanting

Roster
Manager: Burt Renalds

Starters

#1 Mike Rehder (GK), #2 Élisée Naudé (SW), #4 Emanuel Marcaidagoitia (RB), #5 Égide Bassot (DM), #9 Ataleo Zero (RW), #12 Harold Erickson (LB), #18 Jo Gerver (CB), #20 Elmo Andreas (LM), #23 Gebhard Reyer (RM), #24 Ferdinando Condello (LW), #26 Leonhard Borchard (ST)

Reserves

#7 Mathis Küchler (SW), #8 Paulin Fétique (SW), #10 Finn Mcintosh (CF), #11 Filberto Kholyavenko (DM), #13 Oskar Arneth (LB), #14 Karo Beibidea (LM), #16 Coreno Guerra (SW), #17 Hannes Abraham (LB), #19 Mathias Messerli (CB), #21 Carl Mandel (GK), #22 Deodato Cerroni (RM), #25 Gernot Spitznagel (LW)

Last season's surprise promotion, Hanting may struggle to compete with the big boys. But it is sure to be an exciting spectacle to watch, and fans of underdogs everywhere will be rooting for them.

Écho SC

Roster
Manager: Luis Nebe

Starters

#1 Donte Patton (GK), #2 Davis Savoy (LB), #3 Guido Guidi (CB), #4 Guy Robuck (RB), #5 Dany Malet (SW), #11 Dastid Murati (LW), #14 Matthias Delsarte (RW), #16 Ernest Vernier (LM), #17 Lambert Suess (DM), #20 Florentin Jöllenbeck (RM), #21 Geoffroy Hémery (ST)

Reserves

#6 Charles Gounelle (RB), #7 Bryan Webb (LW), #12 Louis Besnard (LM), #15 Curril Thika (SW), #18 Jonathan Lazard (AM), #19 Félix Kléber (RM), #22 Bastien Gilson (RW), #23 Dante Salone (GK), #24 Edmund Braune (CF), #25 Jordan Beaubois (SW), #29 Jean-Claude Chevalier (RW)

Écho, which bribed its way into the championnat, was not punished with relegation because it was already relegated. Now they've won a spot in the league again, but it seems that may have been luck.

Tyvania

Roster
Manager: Giusto Palermo

Starters

#1 Pelaio Etchegoinberry (GK), #3 Erhard Bergmann (CB), #4 Hanns Haerig (LB), #5 Isaac Chagnon (LM), #6 Wilmer Normann (RM), #8 Peter Boesen (AM), #9 Ottaviano De Capua (ST), #14 Eginardo Alteri (RW), #17 Hobert Arledge (DM), #21 Pankrazio Asuaga (LW), #24 Berto Corna (RB)

Reserves

#2 Adrione Nicolo (LB), #7 Gautier Lestrange (LW), #10 Robert Neese (CF), #11 Lino Reale (LW), #12 Anatol Schult (CM), #13 Zachary Webb (LM), #15 Martim Aguiar (LW), #16 Piermarco Mazzarella (RM), #18 Kieran Grant (AM), #19 Dacio Scolaro (RB), #23 Amadeo Minervino (RW), #26 Rory Huber (RM), #27 Guido Ventre (CM), #29 Mauro Stilo (LM), #31 Achille Caiazzo (LW)

Tyvania was last season's deuxième championnat champions. In the last four seasons they've been demoted, then promoted, then demoted, then promoted. Despite that, we're going out on a limb to say they have the best chances of all the teams coming up.

Stomford 1904

Roster
Manager: Marlin Vanbuskirk

Starters

#1 Francis Arceneaux (GK), #2 Earl Randall (SW), #3 Damien Jennings (RB), #4 Paulin Bourguignon (LB), #5 Miché Thomas (CB), #7 Narciso Venturo (LM), #14 Björn Heilmann (CM), #18 Wilfried Bauman (RM), #21 Marc Schöner (LW), #22 André Courtial (RW), #26 Samuel Rademacher (CF)

Reserves

#6 Norberto Cruz (DM), #8 Jacob Pippen (AM), #9 Ronald Kingery (RW), #12 Jâcob Seymour (RM), #13 Maxime Pierlot (RB), #15 Murilo Bento (CB), #17 Richard Morin (LM), #19 Björn Mayenburg (RM), #23 Poul Milone (GK), #25 Norbert Heinecke (CB), #27 Elias Tugendhat (ST), #29 Bernardo Nascimbene (CM)

Paulin Bourguignon, NT player, plays for Stomford, who have been strong the last few seasons, but suddenly dipped last year. Bourguignon will be trying to bring back the old trend.

Bonneville Sportif

Roster
Manager: Guillaume Delafosse

Starters

#1 Richard Beaumanoir (GK), #2 Dillon Fry (RB), #3 Axel Borup (SW), #4 Archimede Lenzi (LB), #5 Ghislain Archambault (CB), #6 Andreas Masur (CM), #15 Niko Groos (LM), #19 Jérémy Colbert (CF), #21 Sylvain Bazalgette (LW), #26 António Do Rosário (RW), #27 Merle Pharr (RM)

Reserves

#7 Casto Camardo (AM), #8 Archibald Deahguj (DM), #10 Valéry Derocles (RB), #11 Josef Hoffman (CB), #12 Josué Bourgeois (SW), #13 Miguel Clements (DM), #14 Yann Babineaux (LW), #16 Jean-Claude Côté (LB), #17 Jordan Sullivan (RM), #18 Gustave Lacan (ST), #20 Thibaud Gérald (RW), #23 Johann Hofmeister (LB), #24 Conrad Krause (LM), #25 Paulin Bernier (LW), #28 Armand Soyer (CB), #29 Denis Jacquemin (RB), #30 Koloman Gehrig (LM), #31 Didier Regnard (RM)

Sportif's sudden drop in performance—two consecutive third place finishes and then twelf—is a struggle to explain. The team things the season was a fluke, but... an entire season?

Genève Bord-de-Lac

Roster
Manager: Gaspard Boissieu

Starters

#1 Désiré Mossé (GK), #2 Olaf Dohna (CB), #3 Deodato Passante (LB), #7 Hubert Loupe (RW), #8 Colby Mcneil (CM), #11 Diomede Trevisan (LW), #12 Glenden Terrell (RM), #16 Charles Bachelot (LM), #17 Dexter Durchville (ST), #23 Jean-Yves Chevotet (LM), #28 Clovis LeBeau (RB)

Reserves

#4 Aubin Chappuis (LB), #6 Arthur Kruspe (SW), #9 Giosuele Sestito (CF), #10 Félix Gide (AM), #13 Ovidio Arrighi (SW), #14 Thomas Marchal (CB), #15 Maxence Verninac (RB), #18 Umile Ammirati (DM), #19 Osmund Bove (CM), #21 Ivan Norris (LW), #24 Alban LeBeau (RM), #25 Jocelyn Bouhier (RW), #26 Eugène Dupuy (LM), #27 Vivien Kaplan (RM)

Genève's second club is usually a mediocre bottom-half team that can escape the relegation battle just fine. That's set to continue.

Renwyll

Roster
Manager: Denis Leroux

Starters

#2 Jean-Philippe Deniau (RB), #3 Alfons Metz (LB), #9 Edoardo Rocchi (CB), #10 Pascal Planque (CM), #11 Leon Stock (LW), #12 Félicien Brodeur (RM), #13 Erich Ferber (CF), #15 Aubert Le Clerc (SW), #18 Lewis Richfield (LM), #21 Calanico Di Martino (GK), #23 Edvard Batterton (RW)

Reserves

#5 Jedidiah Lynn (DM), #6 Christoph Kneller (LB), #7 Eliseo Episcopo (AM), #8 Van Kubiak (AM), #14 Taylor Lee (LW), #16 Nathanaël Cailloux (LW), #17 Lee Cash (RW), #19 Adalberto Voltolini (ST), #24 Lexoti Izcara (RW), #27 Robin Serrano (RW), #28 Lauge Vinther (LW)

Renwyll famously had three consecutive fourth place finishes, but lately they've struggled to beat mid-table sides. Hopefully they still have some memory of the old days.

Baden Heidelberg

Roster
Manager: Oliver Grassl

Starters

#2 Alfontso Gabancho (CB), #3 Levi Braney (LB), #4 Josef Stirner (GK), #5 Anatol Fischbein (RB), #7 Florencio Patman (LM), #8 Éric Mignard (CF), #10 Maximilien Rossignol (CF), #13 Plutarco Rosselli (RM), #15 Gaby Chastain (LW), #26 Sigismund Leitgeb (AM), #29 Sandro Bierbaum (RW)

Reserves

#1 Graziano Piacentini (GK), #11 Enzo Giovannucci (LM), #12 Alex Bruguière (RB), #14 Jean Bougie (CB), #17 Jacob Rodenberg (LM), #18 Berend Hammerl (RM), #19 Gaël Garreau (SW), #20 Michael Palme (GK), #25 Emerson Stinchcomb (LM), #27 Arthur Jonke (CB), #28 Tobie Brian (DM)

Heidelberg won their promotion, were cheated out of it, won it back, and then performed solidly in the top division last year. Definitely a team to watch.

Association Genève

Roster
Manager: Jean-Pierre Boulet

Starters

#1 Michael Cooper (GK), #2 Jean-Charles Nee (LB), #3 Adam Ohlendorf (DM), #4 Ryan Lloyd (RB), #7 Harold Saunders (AM), #10 Frank Franky Adams (CF), #11 Alceste Charbonnier (LW), #15 Klemens Uebelhoer (CB), #17 Michi Duval (LM), #22 Quentin Gouin (RM), #23 Elmar Weschler (RW)

Reserves

#5 Adeodato Doto (SW), #6 Maximilian Brandler (CM), #9 Adrian Hasselvander (ST), #12 Jean-Loup Abbadie (CB), #14 Caleb Evans (LB), #16 William Livingstone (AM), #19 Harold Harry Cherry (SW), #20 Osvaldo Ohler (SW), #21 Maximilian Pfister (RB), #24 Lucien Valluy (CF), #25 Bastien Pomeroy (ST), #26 Heine Pilcz (GK), #28 Jaidyn Jefferson (LM)

Genève's star-studded roster isn't used to finishing this low in the league. Doing it twice in a row would be unacceptable.

Heldingen 1919
Roster
Manager: Marius Hecher

Starters

#1 Jannick Bechtholdt (GK), #2 Stefan Beckmann (LB), #9 Ylljet Amiti (ST), #10 Theodore Dolloway (AM), #11 Dominic Cecchi (LW), #14 Barnabus Mercer (RB), #15 Luc Pélissier (LM), #17 Helibert Wolf (RW), #18 Waldemar Weintraub (RM), #22 Reynaldo Stong (CB), #29 Jonas Hirtreiter (DM)

Reserves

#3 Carl Wentzel (RM), #4 Petrus Schilder (RM), #6 Taylor Dunlap (CM), #8 Ingolf Nowitzki (LM), #12 Pete Crace (GK), #13 Étienne Duchamps (LB), #16 Jaxen Lamb (CM), #19 Alban Pelletier (CF), #20 Gregor Grabner (ST), #25 Turstin Mayoh (CB), #26 Yraid Yassun (CM), #28 Pierre-Antoine Saint-Yves (RW)

Heldingen came 8th last year, but this year their goal is nothing less than winning the league. Pundits thin they might be able to put their money where their mouth is, if the players on this roster are as good as the NT thinks they are.

Sportive Annedine

Roster
Manager: Jérôme Condui

Starters

#1 Warinfreid Quièvremont (GK), #2 Parmenio Tomasino (LB), #3 Arden Kranz (RB), #5 Égide Leroux (SW), #6 Ansquetil de Bethencourt (DM), #7 Gallien Mortimer (RM), #9 Florent Brunet (ST), #17 Quentin Bourreau (LW), #18 Ottmar Huffman (CB), #19 Kasimir Böcker (LM), #24 Richard Longchambon (RW)

Reserves

#8 Frank Goff (CM), #10 Valentino Rais (LB), #11 Fabio Molitor (RB), #12 Raymond Bissonnette (AM), #13 Joesph Stillson (RM), #14 Eduardo Tavares (RB), #15 Yannick Janvier (RW), #16 Gauvain St Pierre (GK), #20 Sacha Deniel (RM), #21 Joshua Barr (AM), #22 Asurdi Balinaga (ST), #23 Jeffry Heist (DM), #25 Corey Howell (RW), #26 Rüdiger Grünspan (CM), #27 Jean-Yves Gaume (RB)

We don't know how a town as small as Annedine has a top-tier football team. Yet they continue to surprise us, so consistently, that we're no longer shocked when they win fifth.

Ville-sur-Rivière

Roster
Manager: Homme Lenom

Starters

#1 Pompeo Pangallo (GK), #2 Gian Marlow (LB), #5 Britt Beaston (DM), #7 Valentine Atwood (RW), #10 Nico Hattenberger (LW), #13 Platur Kaleci (RM), #15 Cyrille Besson (LM), #17 Friedrich Bronner (ST), #20 Kyle Lawrence (AM), #22 Quirino Lucian (CB), #25 Charles Brugière (RB)

Reserves

#3 Quentin Bethune (LB), #4 Pretash Hoxha (LB), #8 Ulpiano Guastella (CM), #11 Fred Lane (RB), #12 Natanaël Boutroux (GK), #14 Amaury Boulle (GK), #18 Claudio Prosdocimi (RW), #23 Melchior Rosenblum (SW), #26 Berto Corna (RB), #28 Nazaire Fontaine (LM)

Ville has been so hot and cold, it makes no sense. They won le championnat one year, came last the next, and then won le deuxième championnat the next year. Coming fifth last season seemed respectably moderate by comparison.

FC Harrim

Roster
Manager: Wolfram Voight

Starters

#1 Estienne de Chefderue (GK), #2 Cameron Richards (RB), #4 Timothé Dieudonné (LB), #5 Émeric Chappelle (DM), #7 Dale Green (AM), #8 Bert Häring (LM), #9 Erwin Tolkien (RM), #10 Cirillo Vrtilek (RW), #13 Tristan Kempf (CF), #15 Étienne Cruise (CB), #18 Matthäus Behrend (LW)

Reserves

#6 Gaétan Gribelin (SW), #11 Xavier Baillieu (DM), #12 Frank Jennings (SW), #14 Erro Ainciburo (CM), #16 Rino Bennardo (ST), #17 Antonio Albertini (RW), #19 Meinhard Wahner (LB), #20 Sigmund Kayserling (AM), #22 Claudio Prosdocimi (CB), #24 Roger Rosenberger (GK), #26 Quirin Voss (RB), #29 Harvey Macdonald (LW)

Harrim is beginning to establish itself, given Zimmerich's absence until last season, as the german-speaking powerhouse of Reçuecian football. This year someone might actually be able to compete with the francophones.

FC Zimmerich

Roster
RNFA Representative: Ben Müller
Manager: Nick Seck

Starters

#1 Abia Becken (GK), #3 Louis Granville (CB), #6 Arne Heissler (DM), #7 Jean-Pierre Kaplan (RM), #8 Robert Chéreau (LM), #9 Lamprecht Breitbarth (LW), #10 Valéry Bossuet (RW), #17 Sicuro Novara (LB), #20 Rodolphe Trudeau (SW), #21 Ly Nasser (CF), #27 Nathanaël Trouvé (RB)

Reserves

#2 Aidan Huffman (CF), #4 Engelbrecht Schiele (LB), #5 Soren Ebbesen (RB), #11 Rudolf Assing (RB), #12 Thomas Münchberg (CB), #14 Severo Sicari (LW), #15 Thomas Cerf (RB), #16 Georges Rigal (DM), #19 Vinzenz Wehner (LM), #22 Malte Lobe (GK), #23 Raymond Short (RM), #24 Kennith Merriweather (SW)

Promotion to third in the league the year after is a good example of why Zimmerich is viewed with such awe.

Reçueçn FC

Roster
RNFA Representative: Bill LaVoyard
Manager: Robby Hincklebacker

Starters

#1 Gerauld Firaut (GK), #2 Leo Beck (SW), #3 John Ward (LB), #5 Jônas de Montchrestien (CB), #6 Roméo Jacquard (CM), #7 Jonah Montgomery (RM), #20 Yves Dufour (RB), #21 Bertrand Bonnay (LM), #22 Pasqualino Parodi (DM), #25 Aaron Niebuhr (RW), #27 Leroy Topham (LW)

Reserves

#4 Lionel Desmarais (RB), #9 Jean-Yves Barrault (ST), #10 William Lawrence (AM), #11 Isaiah Weeks (LW), #12 Rosaire Nicolas (GK), #13 Thomas Büchel (RM), #14 Hagen Groos (SW), #15 Enzo Simon (ST), #16 Yves Devillers (LM), #17 Nathan Cordonnier (GK), #18 Alfred Guillory (LB), #19 Florian Vaugrenard (CB), #24 Manuel Sauvageau (RM)

The most famous and successful club in Reçueçn, Reçueçn FC have too many titles lying around to bother counting them. Last season they came in second, which for them was a disappointment.

Col-de-Môse

Roster
Manager: Michel Montsaint

Starters

#1 Christopher Kirkland (GK), #3 Sébastien Bougie (SW), #4 Claude Courtet (CB), #5 Jayson Compton (LB), #6 Jordyn Myers (DM), #8 Brenton Krahn (CM), #15 Constantino Andrade (LM), #17 Ursmaro Previti (RM), #20 Xavier Abadie (CF), #21 Norbert Schneiderman (ST), #26 Amerigo Linardos (RB)

Reserves

#2 Bernhard Gellner (AM), #7 Cédric Hachette (CM), #9 Maxence Bonnet (CF), #10 Robert Milhaud (AM), #11 Jörn Schädler (RB), #12 Corradino Casale (LB), #13 Diodoro Alleva (RB), #14 Kilian Waldow (RB), #16 Lars Glück (LW), #18 Günter Achenbach (RW), #19 Jordan Beaubois (CF), #22 Casimiro Castro (GK), #23 Dylan Beaubois (RM), #25 Thibaut Massé (LM)

Finally, last year's champions. Col-de-Môse's situation is insane. Season one: demoted right off the bat, last place. Season two: winners of le deuxième championnat, but never promoted (same corruption scandal). However, the FNRF made it up to them and by refusing their demotion after they came 14th. Col-de-Môse made it worth their while and won the number one spot.

The Second IFCF Liga B Champions’ Trophy
First Preliminary Round Results
(RCN)                FC Hanting    3–2    Kipushi Coyotes           (CCG)   2–2   1–0 



The Second IFCF Challenger's Cup
First Preliminary Round
(BGN)                Bolgano FC    5–4    Reçueçn FC                (RCN)   1–3   4–1
(RCN)                 FC Harrim    1–4    Yeaddin Owls              (VIL)   0–2   1–2 
(RCN)              FC Zimmerich    1–2    Jinja City FC             (BNJ)   1–1   0–1



The Second IFCF Champions’ League
Second Preliminary Round
(RCN)               Col-de-Môse    4–5    AS Virtus 1904            (LIS)   4–4   0–1



The Second IFCF Liga B Champions’ Trophy
Second Preliminary Round
(RCN)                FC Hanting    1–4    Vieux-Port FC             (WRL)   1–2   0–2 
(SAJ)               Anro United    1–2    Écho SC                   (RCN)   0–2   1–0 



The Second IFCF Liga B Champions’ Trophy
Third Preliminary Round
(MRN)               Andü United    3–6    Tyvania                   (RCN)   3–5   0–1 
(QUE)   Trojana Condommakers FC    3–0    Écho SC                   (RCN)   2–0   1–0



The Second IFCF Challenger's Cup
Third Preliminary Round
(RCN)               Col-de-Môse    1–3    Hastmead Diamante         (OSR)   0–1   1–2 



The Second IFCF Liga B Champions’ Trophy
Playoff Round
(EFL)        Indionion Athletic    2–1    Tyvania                   (RCN)   2–1   0–0

Reçueçn's second IFCF cycle did not go well. None of its teams made it to the group stage of any competition.

                         Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts
 1 Arly                    8    7   1   0    18    7  +11    22
 2 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré      8    6   2   0    20    8  +12    20
 3 ASC Renting             8    6   1   1    16   10   +6    19
 4 Savoie Associée         8    5   1   2    14    9   +5    16
 5 Cinizio                 8    5   0   3    18   16   +2    15
 6 Assalto Alpino          8    4   2   2    18   16   +2    14
 7 Itrino                  8    4   2   2    17   16   +1    14
 8 FC Hoping               8    4   1   3    24   20   +4    13
 9 FC Hamwich 89           8    4   1   3    17   14   +3    13
10 Boruncia                8    3   3   2    19   13   +6    12
11 Canton-Ouest            8    4   0   4    14   12   +2    12
12 Sportclub St. Karl      8    3   2   3    18   17   +1    11
13 Slynwell                8    3   0   5    14   15   −1     9
14 Lampadaires Associés    8    2   3   3    20   24   −4     9
15 Canting-Aexwell         8    2   2   4    16   15   +1     8
16 Ramton                  8    2   2   4    15   22   −7     8
17 Sportverein Hesse       8    1   2   5    13   20   −7     5
18 Les Raptors             8    0   3   5    13   23  −10     3
19 Actwell                 8    0   2   6    10   21  −11     2
20 Scavatori di Pozzi      8    0   0   8    12   28  −16     0

As expected, as we wrap up the pre-season, Arly and Hôtel Chapelle-Pré top the table. Actwell, Scavatorri, and Les Raptors, still haven't won a game. In fact, the Scavatori don't have a single point. The top half of the table is very crowded.

by **Recuecn** » Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:48 pm

LNRF Season Six

                         Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré     38   27   7   4   106   56  +50    88
 2 Itrino                 38   25   7   6    96   60  +36    82
 3 Arly                   38   25   4   9   102   67  +35    79
 4 ASC Renting            38   24   5   9    82   66  +16    77
 5 Savoie Associée        38   23   5  10    78   48  +30    74
 6 Sportclub St. Karl     38   21   8   9    79   59  +20    71
 7 Canton-Ouest           38   17   4  17    82   82    0    55
 8 Ramton                 38   15   9  14    73   72   +1    54
 9 Boruncia               38   14  11  13    78   78    0    53
10 FC Hamwich 89          38   13  10  15    60   64   −4    49
11 FC Hoping              38   14   5  19    94  103   −9    47
12 Actwell                38   12  11  15    77   86   −9    47
13 Slynwell               38   13   5  20    69   72   −3    44
14 Canting-Aexwell        38   12   7  19    71   84  −13    43
15 Cinizio                38   12   6  20    71   81  −10    42
16 Assalto Alpino         38   10  10  18    75   93  −18    40
17 Sportverein Hesse      38    8  12  18    64   83  −19    36
18 Lampadaires Associés   38    9   8  21    79   99  −20    35
19 Les Raptors            38    7   9  22    67  101  −34    30
20 Scavatori di Pozzi     38    4   7  27    58  107  −49    19
Green text: Promotion to le championnat
Blue Text: IFCF

The Hôtel Chapelle-Pré victory isn't particularly surprising, and it means they go straight back to le championnat without sticking around for a second cycle in the second tier. Arly and Itrino aren't particularly surprise promotions either. Scavatori di Pozzi lose again, but 19 points is the best they've done in three cycles.

                          Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Stomford 1904           30   16   8   6    60   40  +20    56
 2 Sportive Annedine       30   16   7   7    54   35  +19    55
 3 Tyvania                 30   16   5   9    42   27  +15    53
 4 Association Genève      30   13   8   9    64   57   +7    47
 5 Reçueçn FC              30   13   7  10    34   21  +13    46
 6 Ville-Sur-Rivière       30   14   4  12    42   49   −7    46
 7 Bonneville Sportif      30   12   7  11    49   51   −2    43
 8 Genève Bord-de-Lac      30   12   6  12    48   44   +4    42
 9 Renwyll                 30   12   5  13    53   54   −1    41
10 FC Zimmerich            30   12   5  13    59   66   −7    41
11 Heldingen 1919          30   10   8  12    50   48   +2    38
12 Écho SC                 30   10   8  12    33   35   −2    38
13 FC Harrim               30    9   8  13    30   41  −11    35
14 Col-De-Môse             30    9   5  16    38   49  −11    32
15 Baden Heidelberg        30    7   7  16    18   29  −11    28
16 FC Hanting              30    7   6  17    32   60  −28    27
Green Text: IFCF
Red Text: Relegation

In Le Championnat, Stomford wins the league, holding off a stronger Annedine throughout a very close championship battle. Col-De-Môse—the team that won it last year—find themselves being relegated again. Hanting is relegated too after just one cycle at the top; Baden Heidelberg at least got two before going back down.

by **Recuecn** » Sun Oct 04, 2020 3:48 am

LNRF Season Seven

Rosters

Actwell

Roster
Manager: Hyron LeBouffe

Starters

#1 Damien Bocuse (GK), #4 Elmer McPherson (RB), #7 Ethan Marsh (RW), #9 Mason Sharp (CF), #10 Antonia Desilva (AM), #11 Gianpaolo Serio (LW), #13 Benoît Beaufort (LB), #16 Brandon Harper (RM), #18 Dylan Vigouroux (CB), #19 Léon Bélanger (LM), #26 Serge Caron (CF)

Reserves

#2 Omer Barthet (LB), #3 Oscar Best (LB), #5 Benjamin Murray (CB), #6 Abélard Renou (CM), #8 Ellis Russell (DM), #12 Niko Rehberg (GK), #14 Winoc Bureau (LM), #15 Paul Heintze (RB), #17 Simon Roux (RM), #20 Josselin Victor (RM), #21 Hugues Berger (CF), #22 Engelbert Boesch (LW), #23 Samuel Gailey (LM), #24 Léonard Gauthier (RW), #25 David Speckmann (AM)

Arly

Roster
Manager: Ferdinand Blancmagne

Starters

#1 Ansaldo Dolfi (GK), #2 Benedikt Bohn (CF), #3 Torben Holz (LB), #4 Évrard Bourneuf (LM), #5 Nicholas Luhman (RB), #6 Giordano Tivoli (SW), #7 Ulpiano Cotroneo (DM), #11 Jason Sandoval (LW), #12 Gabriel Henderson (RW), #17 Constantin Pierre (RM), #18 Jean-Marie Bret (CB)

Reserves

#8 Günter Mommsen (RB), #9 Adalbrecht Neuner (SW), #10 Jalen Reeves (AM), #13 Aymeric Gagne (LM), #14 Mathias Mossé (RB), #15 Franz Myrthenbaum (RB), #16 Adam Senft (LB), #19 Nils Chasalow (SW), #20 Christian Gagneux (LB), #21 Lilian De Villepin (SW), #22 Rémy Traver (GK), #23 Fabien Bernard (RB), #24 Adalger Schechter (CM), #25 Robert Leclair (LW)

ASC Renting

Roster
Manager: Gotthard Leiner

Starters

#1 Edgar Friedrich (GK), #5 Kasden Tzelili (GK), #6 Enzo Gounelle (LB), #8 Kunz Brandler (LM), #10 Adalfredo Bongiovanni (CF), #11 Côme Carrel (LW), #19 Germain Duchamp (CB), #23 Étienne Delacroix (RM), #24 Noa Sault (RW), #26 Léonard Bureau (AM), #27 Bastien Cloutier (RB)

Reserves

#2 Eberardo Cifarelli (GK), #4 Ludovic Boutet (SW), #7 Norbert Affré (CB), #12 Lambert Arsenault (DM), #14 Gundulf Benoist (RM), #15 Mathis Crevier (LM), #16 Kay Huppert (SW), #17 Jean Geffroy (RB), #21 Berndt Rheingold (CM), #22 Ludo Leblanc (CM), #25 Nicodème Segal (DM)

Assalto Alpino

Roster
Manager: Bill Runkin
Assistant Manager: Ettore Sisti

Starters

#1 Gaspare Castiglia (GK), #3 Gabriel Mitchell (CB), #8 Maynard Hebron (RM), #9 Guis Bonner (CF), #14 Élisée Calvet (LM), #16 Marco Sacco (CB), #17 Mauro Terranova (RB), #18 Porthos Poincaré (DM), #23 Giraldo Rana (RW), #27 Teofilo Corrà (LW), #31 Lando Brivio (SW)

Reserves

#11 Corrado Scenna (SW), #12 Edmond Cousteau (GK), #15 Claude Gaudin (RM), #19 Renaud Demaret (ST), #20 Sabino Gronchi (LM), #21 Clemente Gabrielli (LW), #22 Gottlob Blau (ST), #24 Clair Perrault (CF), #25 Walther Prantl (LM), #26 Giacinto Bicchieri (RW), #28 Bastien Battier (CM), #29 Tiziano Romagna (CM)

Association Genève

Roster
Manager: Jean-Pierre Boulet

Starters

#1 Michael Cooper (GK), #2 Jean-Charles Nee (LB), #3 Adam Ohlendorf (DM), #4 Ryan Lloyd (RB), #7 Harold Saunders (AM), #10 Frank Franky Adams (CF), #11 Alceste Charbonnier (LW), #15 Klemens Uebelhoer (CB), #17 Michi Duval (LM), #22 Quentin Gouin (RM), #23 Elmar Weschler (RW)

Reserves

#5 Adeodato Doto (SW), #6 Maximilian Brandler (CM), #9 Adrian Hasselvander (ST), #12 Jean-Loup Abbadie (CB), #14 Caleb Evans (LB), #16 William Livingstone (AM), #19 Harold Harry Cherry (SW), #20 Osvaldo Ohler (SW), #21 Maximilian Pfister (RB), #24 Lucien Valluy (CF), #25 Bastien Pomeroy (ST), #26 Heine Pilcz (GK), #28 Jaidyn Jefferson (LM)

Baden Heidelberg

Roster
Manager: Oliver Grassl

Starters

#2 Alfontso Gabancho (CB), #3 Levi Braney (LB), #5 Anatol Fischbein (RB), #7 Florencio Patman (LM), #8 Éric Mignard (CF), #13 Plutarco Rosselli (RM), #15 Gaby Chastain (LW), #26 Sigismund Leitgeb (AM), #29 Sandro Bierbaum (RW)

Reserves

#1 Graziano Piacentini (GK), #11 Enzo Giovannucci (LM), #12 Alex Bruguière (RB), #14 Jean Bougie (CB), #17 Jacob Rodenberg (LM), #18 Berend Hammerl (RM), #19 Gaël Garreau (SW), #20 Michael Palme (GK), #25 Emerson Stinchcomb (LM), #27 Arthur Jonke (CB), #28 Tobie Brian (DM)

Bonneville Sportif

Roster
Manager: Guillaume Delafosse

Starters

#1 Richard Beaumanoir (GK), #2 Dillon Fry (RB), #3 Axel Borup (SW), #4 Archimede Lenzi (LB), #5 Ghislain Archambault (CB), #6 Andreas Masur (CM), #15 Niko Groos (LM), #19 Jérémy Colbert (CF), #21 Sylvain Bazalgette (LW), #26 António Do Rosário (RW), #27 Merle Pharr (RM)

Reserves

#7 Casto Camardo (AM), #8 Archibald Deahguj (DM), #10 Valéry Derocles (RB), #11 Josef Hoffman (CB), #12 Josué Bourgeois (SW), #13 Miguel Clements (DM), #14 Yann Babineaux (LW), #16 Jean-Claude Côté (LB), #17 Jordan Sullivan (RM), #18 Gustave Lacan (ST), #20 Thibaud Gérald (RW), #23 Johann Hofmeister (LB), #24 Conrad Krause (LM), #25 Paulin Bernier (LW), #28 Armand Soyer (CB), #29 Denis Jacquemin (RB), #30 Koloman Gehrig (LM), #31 Didier Regnard (RM)

Boruncia

Roster
Manager: Henny Muntz

Starters

#1 Baldur Tarr (GK), #3 Cullen Salant (CB), #5 Chi Drone (RW), #8 Steen Hjort (RM), #10 Wenzel Hettinger (LW), #14 Enrico Nizzola (LB), #15 Jean-Marie Blondeau (SW), #18 Henri Lyon (AM), #26 Adalwin Sachs (RB), #29 Kevin Assing (ST)

Reserves

#12 Ulrich Geller (CB), #16 Lif Gjoni (LM), #17 Christian Himmelblau (DM), #19 Clément Leclercq (RM), #21 Lorenz Kornblum (GK), #23 Robin Scheck (SW), #24 Olaf Körver (SW), #25 Jacob Katzmann (LB), #27 Baudouin Lachance (CB), #28 Stéphane Oliver (CF)

Canting-Aexwell

Roster
Manager: Joël Boffrand

Starters

#1 Valéry Grinda (GK), #2 Timóteo Tomás (LB), #3 Ervin Kuris (SW), #4 Baldassarre Pase (CB), #6 Danial Edison (RB), #8 Bernard Beaulne (RM), #9 Benjamin Couvreur (ST), #11 Raniero Malfitano (LW), #17 Clément Granet (LM), #19 Tancrède Mortimer (RW), #21 Olaf Morgentaler (CM)

Reserves

#5 Ildefonso Stagno (RB), #7 Adolphe Geffroy (ST), #10 Eckardt Haushofer (CF), #12 Meinrad Große (GK), #13 Raphaël Geffroy (CB), #14 Bruno Simon (SW), #15 Edgar Freundlich (LB), #16 Aymeric Mignard (RB), #18 Roch Girardot (RB), #20 Francis Jacquier (LM), #22 Jean-Charles Bourque (RM), #24 Eduard Gerster (AM), #25 Jean Auger (LW), #26 Ludovic Boudreaux (GK)

Canton-Ouest

Roster
Manager: Drake Kicks

Starters

#1 Adalardo Pozza (GK), #2 Till Kesselman (LB), #3 Remy Rossignol (SW), #4 Sebastian Orndorff (CB), #9 Remy Jacquemin (ST), #11 Gregorius Hughson (LW), #20 Lucas Pascal (RB), #24 Tristan Pomeroy (LM), #25 Achille Caiazzo (AM), #26 Corradino Casale (RM), #27 Romuald Bruguière (RW)

Reserves

#5 Jonathan Craig (RM), #6 Mathieu Jeannin (LM), #7 Tonni Bang (RW), #8 Bernard Grandis (CM), #10 Hervé Botrel (CF), #12 Régis Beaux (GK), #13 Landon Simon (SW), #16 Théo Chausson (LB), #21 Veit Aigner (LW), #22 Reuben Shaw (LW), #28 Mauro Stilo (DM), #29 Gaylord Portier (RW), #30 Luc Rigal (GK)

Cinizio

Roster
Manager: Fabio Iorio

Starters

#1 Pantaleo Corvi (GK), #2 Jean-Guy Jégou (CB), #3 Burkhard Korsch (LB), #4 Bruno Dubos (RB), #6 Gaspare D'Antona (LM), #8 Noé Batteux (RM), #9 Bruno Saldanha (ST), #13 Elvino Buratti (RW), #16 Vodingo Balboni (LW), #24 Costanzo Turati (DM), #26 Basilio Sordi (CF)

Reserves

#11 Sigfrido Ferrari (LM), #12 Clemente Commisso (CF), #14 Durante Nicodemo (RW), #17 Erminio Abategiovanni (SW), #18 Aurélien Chausson (SW), #19 Desiderato Albo (SW), #20 Caino Carrara (LB), #21 Narseo De Renzo (CB), #22 Didimo Tesoriero (RB), #25 Lauriano Mastrandrea (ST), #28 Luca Santell (CF)

Col-de-Môse

Roster
Manager: Michel Montsaint

Starters

#1 Christopher Kirkland (GK), #3 Sébastien Bougie (SW), #4 Claude Courtet (CB), #5 Jayson Compton (LB), #6 Jordyn Myers (DM), #8 Brenton Krahn (CM), #15 Constantino Andrade (LM), #17 Ursmaro Previti (RM), #20 Xavier Abadie (CF), #21 Norbert Schneiderman (ST), #26 Amerigo Linardos (RB)

Reserves

#2 Bernhard Gellner (AM), #7 Cédric Hachette (CM), #9 Maxence Bonnet (CF), #10 Robert Milhaud (AM), #11 Jörn Schädler (RB), #12 Corradino Casale (LB), #13 Diodoro Alleva (RB), #14 Kilian Waldow (RB), #16 Lars Glück (LW), #18 Günter Achenbach (RW), #19 Jordan Beaubois (CF), #22 Casimiro Castro (GK), #23 Dylan Beaubois (RM), #25 Thibaut Massé (LM)

Écho SC

Roster
Manager: Luis Nebe

Starters

#1 Donte Patton (GK), #2 Davis Savoy (LB), #3 Guido Guidi (CB), #4 Guy Robuck (RB), #5 Dany Malet (SW), #11 Dastid Murati (LW), #14 Matthias Delsarte (RW), #16 Ernest Vernier (LM), #17 Lambert Suess (DM), #20 Florentin Jöllenbeck (RM), #21 Geoffroy Hémery (ST)

Reserves

#6 Charles Gounelle (RB), #7 Bryan Webb (LW), #12 Louis Besnard (LM), #15 Curril Thika (SW), #18 Jonathan Lazard (AM), #19 Félix Kléber (RM), #22 Bastien Gilson (RW), #23 Dante Salone (GK), #24 Edmund Braune (CF), #25 Jordan Beaubois (SW)

FC Hamwich 89

Roster
Manager: Anton Leitner

Starters

#1 Dagny Bernardo (GK), #3 Blake Kring (CB), #10 Eckehard Rommel (RB), #13 Driton Dervishi (RW), #15 Édouard Guillaume (SW), #19 Gregor Bäumler (LM), #20 Lars Glück (RM), #22 Norbert Schneiderman (ST), #27 Jonathan Bechtold (LB), #31 August Bäcker (CM)

Reserves

#2 Wolfgang Ehlers (AM), #4 Udo Stockhausen (DM), #6 Edwin Potts (GK), #12 Ludwig Pöpel (CB), #14 Armand Vannier (SW), #21 Oscar Quaschny (LW), #23 Tobias Goedde (CF), #24 Bert Wallner (RW), #25 Lars Riemenschneider (GK), #26 Timo Ehrenbaum (SW), #28 Eckhard Josten (RB), #29 Friedhold Fromm (LB), #30 Günter Achenbach (LM)

FC Hanting

Roster
Manager: Burt Renalds

Starters

#1 Mike Rehder (GK), #2 Élisée Naudé (SW), #4 Emanuel Marcaidagoitia (RB), #5 Égide Bassot (DM), #9 Ataleo Zero (RW), #12 Harold Erickson (LB), #18 Jo Gerver (CB), #20 Elmo Andreas (LM), #23 Gebhard Reyer (RM), #24 Ferdinando Condello (LW), #26 Leonhard Borchard (ST)

Reserves

#7 Mathis Küchler (SW), #8 Paulin Fétique (SW), #10 Finn Mcintosh (CF), #11 Filberto Kholyavenko (DM), #13 Oskar Arneth (LB), #14 Karo Beibidea (LM), #16 Coreno Guerra (SW), #17 Hannes Abraham (LB), #19 Mathias Messerli (CB), #21 Carl Mandel (GK), #22 Deodato Cerroni (RM), #25 Gernot Spitznagel (LW)

FC Harrim

Roster
Manager: Wolfram Voight

Starters

#1 Estienne de Chefderue (GK), #2 Cameron Richards (RB), #4 Timothé Dieudonné (LB), #5 Émeric Chappelle (DM), #7 Dale Green (AM), #8 Bert Häring (LM), #9 Erwin Tolkien (RM), #10 Cirillo Vrtilek (RW), #13 Tristan Kempf (CF), #15 Étienne Cruise (CB), #18 Matthäus Behrend (LW)

Reserves

#6 Gaétan Gribelin (SW), #11 Xavier Baillieu (DM), #12 Frank Jennings (SW), #14 Erro Ainciburo (CM), #16 Rino Bennardo (ST), #17 Antonio Albertini (RW), #19 Meinhard Wahner (LB), #20 Sigmund Kayserling (AM), #22 Claudio Prosdocimi (CB), #24 Roger Rosenberger (GK), #26 Quirin Voss (RB), #29 Harvey Macdonald (LW)

FC Hoping

Roster
Manager: Jan Kruspe

Starters

#1 Larry Donovan (GK), #3 Frederik Pihl (CB), #6 Aguinaldo Silvestre (RM), #7 Gerd Bormann (RW), #8 Gedeone Mion (LB), #10 Andrew Mcginn (CF), #13 Bruno Gouin (CM), #18 Justin Sylvestre (LW), #20 Abeau Larousse (SW), #24 Amaranto Bellissimo (LM)

Reserves

#5 Concetto Lagomarsino (CM), #9 Fabien Toutain (AM), #12 Fraunçouès Osmont (GK), #14 Renaud Levasseur (GK), #15 John Brown (RM), #17 Gaëtan Dupuy (RW), #19 Cyrille Appell (ST), #21 Paolo Pierini (RB), #22 Gérard Robiquet (SW), #26 Antero Venezio (LM), #27 Roger Carrell (CM), #28 Tony Saunders (CB)

FC Zimmerich

Roster
RNFA Representative: Ben Müller
Manager: Nick Seck

Starters

#1 Abia Becken (GK), #3 Louis Granville (CB), #6 Arne Heissler (DM), #7 Jean-Pierre Kaplan (RM), #8 Robert Chéreau (LM), #9 Lamprecht Breitbarth (LW), #10 Valéry Bossuet (RW), #17 Sicuro Novara (LB), #20 Rodolphe Trudeau (SW), #21 Ly Nasser (CF), #27 Nathanaël Trouvé (RB)

Reserves

#2 Aidan Huffman (CF), #4 Engelbrecht Schiele (LB), #5 Soren Ebbesen (RB), #11 Rudolf Assing (RB), #12 Thomas Münchberg (CB), #14 Severo Sicari (LW), #15 Thomas Cerf (RB), #16 Georges Rigal (DM), #19 Vinzenz Wehner (LM), #22 Malte Lobe (GK), #23 Raymond Short (RM), #24 Kennith Merriweather (SW)

Genève Bord-de-Lac

Roster
Manager: Gaspard Boissieu

Starters

#1 Désiré Mossé (GK), #2 Olaf Dohna (CB), #3 Deodato Passante (LB), #7 Hubert Loupe (RW), #8 Colby Mcneil (CM), #11 Diomede Trevisan (LW), #12 Glenden Terrell (RM), #16 Charles Bachelot (LM), #17 Dexter Durchville (ST), #23 Jean-Yves Chevotet (LM), #28 Clovis LeBeau (RB)

Reserves

#4 Aubin Chappuis (LB), #9 Giosuele Sestito (CF), #10 Félix Gide (AM), #13 Ovidio Arrighi (SW), #14 Thomas Marchal (CB), #15 Maxence Verninac (RB), #18 Umile Ammirati (DM), #19 Osmund Bove (CM), #21 Ivan Norris (LW), #24 Alban LeBeau (RM), #25 Jocelyn Bouhier (RW), #26 Eugène Dupuy (LM), #27 Vivien Kaplan (RM)

Heldingen 1919

Roster
Manager: Marius Hecher

Starters

#1 Jannick Bechtholdt (GK), #2 Stefan Beckmann (LB), #9 Ylljet Amiti (ST), #10 Theodore Dolloway (AM), #11 Dominic Cecchi (LW), #14 Barnabus Mercer (RB), #15 Luc Pélissier (LM), #17 Helibert Wolf (RW), #18 Waldemar Weintraub (RM), #22 Reynaldo Stong (CB), #29 Jonas Hirtreiter (DM)

Reserves

#3 Carl Wentzel (RM), #4 Petrus Schilder (RM), #6 Taylor Dunlap (CM), #8 Ingolf Nowitzki (LM), #12 Pete Crace (GK), #13 Étienne Duchamps (LB), #16 Jaxen Lamb (CM), #19 Alban Pelletier (CF), #20 Gregor Grabner (ST), #25 Turstin Mayoh (CB), #26 Yraid Yassun (CM), #28 Pierre-Antoine Saint-Yves (RW)

Hôtel Chapelle-Pré

Roster
Manager: Gautier Duval

Starters

#1 Biagio Solazzo (GK), #2 Bernard Wellington (SW), #3 Tobie Beauvau (CB), #4 Niceto Colapietro (DM), #5 Roméo Demaret (CM), #6 Aleandro Scarlata (LB), #8 David Hughes (LM), #11 Wittie Zaleznik (LW), #19 Lilian Escoffier (RM), #22 Christian Goethe (RB), #29 Boniface Bellegarde (RW)

Reserves

#7 Gaby Mace (LB), #9 Marlon Daugherty (LB), #10 Erhard Siemon (LM), #12 Kyle Cooley (LW), #13 Vincent Sardou (LM), #14 Bledaret Boja (DM), #17 Jean-Charles Lortie (CF), #20 Jeremias Schwann (CM), #21 Arminio Tarro (RW), #23 Colin Lazard (SW), #24 Jérôme Chevalier (SW), #25 Édouard Besnard (RM), #26 Robin Oldenberg (LM)

Itrino

Roster
Manager: Adone Corio

Starters

#2 Algas Hajdaraga (CB), #4 Hartmut Nostitz (RB), #5 Salim Condenzio (DM), #11 Blaine Porter (LW), #12 Frontiniano Arata (GK), #17 Gioberto Taravella (RW), #18 Anselm Pellegrino (LM), #19 Gervais Jacquemin (ST), #27 Hans Jonke (RM), #31 Garimberto Mastronardi (AM)

Reserves

#6 Hector Bullion (CM), #9 Erik Hewitt (LB), #10 Aristotele Vitrano (CF), #13 Adolfo Pizzimenti (SW), #15 Viviano Vars (SW), #16 Gonerio Alu (CB), #20 Agazio Castro (RB), #21 Gérôme Lozé (LW), #22 Matroniano Nelli (RM), #23 Bruno Chapuis (GK), #24 Gérald Vandame (RW), #25 Gillo Scianna (LB), #26 Carmine Di Nardo (CF), #28 Ulpiano Carleo (ST), #29 Eraldo Del Negro (CM), #32 Mattia Zagami (DM)

Lampadaires Associés

Roster
Manager: Jean-Pascal Arceneaux

Starters

#1 Cédric Laframboise (GK), #2 Félix Couturier (CB), #3 Ambrogio Badolato (RB), #5 Maurice Jaubert (LB), #9 Igino Leccese (LM), #11 Igor Chevotet (CF), #13 Igon Garaiburu (RM), #21 Hunter Vance (LW), #22 Jean-Baptiste Brochard (RW), #25 Louie Green (SW), #26 Hector Crépin (CM)

Reserves

#6 Dominique Brunet (CB), #7 Lionel Dior (RM), #8 Vincent Blanc (RW), #12 Edouard Veil (GK), #15 Torben Brestrich (CB), #16 Kévin Robillard (ST), #17 Martial Noir (CF), #18 Christian Baume (CF), #19 Èrthu de Bellièvre (LM), #20 Valentin Leblanc (CM), #23 Augustine Denbaars (RB), #27 Siegmund Käutner (SW)

Les Raptors

Roster
Manager: Frank Winsome

Starters

#1 Benjamin Evans (GK), #2 Jonathan Leblond (SW), #4 Garrett Burton (RB), #5 Jordan Cartier (LB), #9 Kai Jespersen (ST), #10 Gerwald Brandis (CM), #11 Aaron Chapuis (LW), #16 Ignace Crozier (RM), #19 Gustave Devillers (CB), #27 Edmond Léger (RW), #28 Sarle de Vere (LM)

Reserves

#3 Julien Valluy (AM), #6 Julius Hector (DM), #8 Matthew Bowers (AM), #12 Rasiphe Caillot (DM), #18 Ludovic Courbis (LB), #20 Alviero Anello (AM), #21 Remy Soyer (RB), #22 Christopher Subercaseaux (LM), #23 Pons Lesauvage (RM), #24 Cédric Aubert (LW), #25 Nathan Crevier (CF), #26 Shane Parkin (AM)

Ramton

Roster
Manager: Pierre Bonnot

Starters

#1 Giulio Pavlon (GK), #2 Dwight Peck (SW), #3 Jacob Paulsen (LB), #4 Paul Harding (CB), #5 Bertrand Berger (RB), #6 Alphonse Cochet (CM), #9 Jean-Christophe Lemoine (RW), #12 Raymond Caron (RM), #18 Arne Franz (LM), #22 Reinhold Madelung (LW), #24 Ulrich Winkler (CF)

Reserves

#7 Ansgar Bloch (DM), #16 Jean Jauffret (LB), #19 Klemens Winkelhock (SW), #20 Othmar Hofmann (LM), #21 Kunz Fellgiebel (RM), #23 Denis Scharff (LB), #25 Nicolas Koehler (ST), #26 Benedict Breuer (CF), #27 Jean-Joël Leblanc (RW), #28 Jean-Loup Sylvestre (RW), #29 Stephen Medina (DM), #32 Nicola Weyrauch (CM)

Reçueçn FC

Roster
RNFA Representative: Bill LaVoyard
Manager: Robby Hincklebacker

Starters

#1 Gerauld Firaut (GK), #2 Leo Beck (SW), #3 John Ward (LB), #5 Jônas de Montchrestien (CB), #6 Roméo Jacquard (CM), #7 Jonah Montgomery (RM), #20 Yves Dufour (RB), #21 Bertrand Bonnay (LM), #22 Pasqualino Parodi (DM), #25 Aaron Niebuhr (RW), #27 Leroy Topham (LW)

Reserves

#4 Lionel Desmarais (RB), #9 Jean-Yves Barrault (ST), #10 William Lawrence (AM), #12 Rosaire Nicolas (GK), #13 Thomas Büchel (RM), #14 Hagen Groos (SW), #15 Enzo Simon (ST), #16 Yves Devillers (LM), #17 Nathan Cordonnier (GK), #18 Alfred Guillory (LB), #19 Florian Vaugrenard (CB), #24 Manuel Sauvageau (RM)

Renwyll

Roster
Manager: Denis Leroux

Starters

#3 Alfons Metz (LB), #9 Edoardo Rocchi (CB), #10 Pascal Planque (CM), #11 Leon Stock (LW), #12 Félicien Brodeur (RM), #13 Erich Ferber (CF), #15 Aubert Le Clerc (SW), #18 Lewis Richfield (LM), #21 Calanico Di Martino (GK), #23 Edvard Batterton (RW)

Reserves

#5 Jedidiah Lynn (DM), #6 Christoph Kneller (LB), #7 Eliseo Episcopo (AM), #8 Van Kubiak (AM), #14 Taylor Lee (LW), #16 Nathanaël Cailloux (LW), #17 Lee Cash (RW), #19 Adalberto Voltolini (ST), #24 Lexoti Izcara (RW), #27 Robin Serrano (RW), #28 Lauge Vinther (LW)

Savoie Associée

Roster
RNFA Representative: Jonathan Avoirpieds
Manager: Marc Voyard

Starters

#1 Guiscardo Cirillo (GK), #2 Adalbrecht Taube (RM), #3 Touénot Mandeville (CB), #4 Abbondio Brunelli (LB), #6 Anderson Belanger (CM), #8 Linus Feulner (AM), #10 Auguste Chéreau (CF), #11 Maximilien Carbonneau (LW), #14 Abeau Rouanet (RW), #17 Djeferson Leloup (RB), #22 Antoine Brousseau (LM)

Reserves

#5 Jean-Marc Bescond (LM), #9 Tom Thompson (SW), #15 Émilien Boutet (LW), #16 Alban Grosjean (CB), #19 Isaïe Asselineau (LB), #20 Franck Côté (ST), #24 Justin Cahun (GK), #25 Ruben Breiner (SW), #28 Étienne Gainsbourg (RM), #29 Abraham Vallotton (RW)

Scavatori di Pozzi

Roster
Manager: Gilles Archer
Assistant Manager: Elogio Tuscano

Starters

#1 Bernhart Herbig (GK), #3 Anselmo Calabrese (LB), #4 Sostene Baldassari (CB), #5 Fausto Alderisi (RB), #6 Giampaolo Altamura (AM), #8 Beniamino Rizzo (RW), #10 Gervasio Nannini (LM), #14 Pierre-Louis D'Amboise (RM), #20 Hubert Quint (CF), #21 Jackson Bristol (LW)

Reserves

#2 Emmanuel Houdin (DM), #7 Siricio Palleschi (ST), #9 Renzo Cremona (CF), #11 Verecondo Roso (LW), #12 Isembart Grouchet (CB), #13 Joël Berengar (RB), #15 Icaro Santarsiero (RW), #16 Ivan Michelsen (LM), #17 Natanaele Agnelli (GK), #18 Mennone Di Fiore (RM), #19 Isaiah Weeks (LW), #22 Iñizio Hurzurigarai (SW), #28 Roméo Chausson (AM)

Slynwell

Roster
Manager: Hugo Drewes

Starters

#1 Leroy Howe (GK), #2 Engelbrecht Panzer (RB), #3 Roman Bambach (CB), #4 Bastiano Franchi (LB), #6 Ecclesio Cassone (RM), #7 Boniface Boudon (LM), #8 Manuel Gérin-Lajoie (RW), #11 Lucrèce Montgomery (LW), #14 Foster Shelburne (SW), #20 Koloman Ott (CM), #25 Marc-Antoine Marchal (CF)

Reserves

#5 Désiré Milhaud (DM), #9 Jean Badeaux (RB), #10 Luca Bianculli (GK), #12 Denis Berger (GK), #13 Edwin Higgins (CB), #17 Gotthard Walther (LM), #18 Austin Glover (RW), #19 Frankie Spiridigliozzi (RW), #21 Hans-Günther Jung (AM), #22 Erdmann Graf (RM), #23 Harald Schuler (LW), #24 Norbert Beaux (LW), #26 Wieland Kunz (CF)

Sportclub St. Karl

Roster
Manager: Edward Knight

Starters

#1 Timo Kaulbach (GK), #2 Maxence Spanghero (SW), #5 Elliott Knobloch (LB), #6 Apollo Goff (LM), #10 Selig Habbal (CF), #17 Hugues Delafose (AM), #19 Karl Arbeit (CB), #20 Germain Magnier (RB), #21 Brandon Hamilton (LW), #22 Hanspeter Baumgärtner (RM), #23 Jean-Noël LeBeau (RW)

Reserves

#4 Matthieu Portier (CB), #7 Louis Duval (LM), #9 Martial Bruneau (ST), #11 Frank Tischendorf (CF), #12 Felix Baumeister (AM), #18 Sieger Andreas (LM), #24 Hannes Kohler (CF), #25 Pascal Wehner (ST), #26 Diocleziano Polidoro (GK)

Sportive Annedine

Roster
Manager: Jérôme Condui

Starters

#1 Warinfreid Quièvremont (GK), #2 Parmenio Tomasino (LB), #3 Arden Kranz (RB), #5 Égide Leroux (SW), #6 Ansquetil de Bethencourt (DM), #7 Gallien Mortimer (RM), #9 Florent Brunet (ST), #17 Quentin Bourreau (LW), #18 Ottmar Huffman (CB), #19 Kasimir Böcker (LM), #24 Richard Longchambon (RW)

Reserves

#8 Frank Goff (CM), #10 Valentino Rais (LB), #11 Fabio Molitor (RB), #13 Joesph Stillson (RM), #14 Eduardo Tavares (RB), #15 Yannick Janvier (RW), #16 Gauvain St Pierre (GK), #20 Sacha Deniel (RM), #21 Joshua Barr (AM), #22 Asurdi Balinaga (ST), #23 Jeffry Heist (DM), #25 Corey Howell (RW), #26 Rüdiger Grünspan (CM), #27 Jean-Yves Gaume (RB)

Sportverein Hesse

Roster
Manager: Albert Mengelberg

Starters

#2 Évrard Alarie (CB), #3 Euseo Volino (LB), #5 Osbert Duval (DM), #9 Colin Boffrand (CF), #11 Niko Strobel (LM), #12 Fabien Jacquinot (GK), #15 Phillip Kuchler (SW), #16 Pascal Féret (RB), #18 Achim Lotz (RM), #21 Stanislaus Seydel (LW), #25 Ägid Baum (RW)

Reserves

#1 Angelo Paasche (GK), #4 Vilfredo Li Volsi (RB), #6 Priamo Pellegrino (CM), #7 Ramsey Glenister (CB), #8 Adalwin Höfle (CB), #13 Garrott Ferraro (LB), #14 Georges Sardou (CB), #17 Ignace Rémy (RB), #19 Engelbert Frank (CB), #20 Stanislaus Pracht (LW), #22 Fergus Edison (SW), #23 Fredric Lacefield (CM), #24 Maximilian Schönherr (RW), #26 Serge Chappelle (DM)

Stomford 1904

Roster
Manager: Marlin Vanbuskirk

Starters

#2 Earl Randall (SW), #3 Damien Jennings (RB), #4 Paulin Bourguignon (LB), #5 Miché Thomas (CB), #7 Narciso Venturo (LM), #14 Björn Heilmann (CM), #18 Wilfried Bauman (RM), #21 Marc Schöner (LW), #22 André Courtial (RW), #26 Samuel Rademacher (CF)

Reserves

#6 Norberto Cruz (DM), #8 Jacob Pippen (AM), #9 Ronald Kingery (RW), #12 Jâcob Seymour (RM), #13 Maxime Pierlot (RB), #15 Murilo Bento (CB), #17 Richard Morin (LM), #19 Björn Mayenburg (RM), #23 Poul Milone (GK), #25 Norbert Heinecke (CB), #27 Elias Tugendhat (ST), #29 Bernardo Nascimbene (CM)

Tyvania

Roster
Manager: Giusto Palermo

Starters

#1 Pelaio Etchegoinberry (GK), #3 Erhard Bergmann (CB), #4 Hanns Haerig (LB), #5 Isaac Chagnon (LM), #6 Wilmer Normann (RM), #8 Peter Boesen (AM), #9 Ottaviano De Capua (ST), #14 Eginardo Alteri (RW), #17 Hobert Arledge (DM), #21 Pankrazio Asuaga (LW), #24 Berto Corna (RB)

Reserves

#2 Adrione Nicolo (LB), #7 Gautier Lestrange (LW), #10 Robert Neese (CF), #11 Lino Reale (LW), #12 Anatol Schult (CM), #15 Martim Aguiar (LW), #16 Piermarco Mazzarella (RM), #18 Kieran Grant (AM), #19 Dacio Scolaro (RB), #23 Amadeo Minervino (RW), #26 Rory Huber (RM), #27 Guido Ventre (CM), #29 Mauro Stilo (LM), #31 Achille Caiazzo (LW)

Ville-sur-Rivière

Roster
Manager: Homme Lenom

Starters

#1 Pompeo Pangallo (GK), #2 Gian Marlow (LB), #5 Britt Beaston (DM), #7 Valentine Atwood (RW), #10 Nico Hattenberger (LW), #13 Platur Kaleci (RM), #15 Cyrille Besson (LM), #17 Friedrich Bronner (ST), #20 Kyle Lawrence (AM), #22 Quirino Lucian (CB), #25 Charles Brugière (RB)

Reserves

#3 Quentin Bethune (LB), #4 Pretash Hoxha (LB), #8 Ulpiano Guastella (CM), #11 Fred Lane (RB), #12 Natanaël Boutroux (GK), #14 Amaury Boulle (GK), #18 Claudio Prosdocimi (RW), #23 Melchior Rosenblum (SW), #26 Berto Corna (RB), #28 Nazaire Fontaine (LM)

Col-De-Môse, one cycle after being relegated, find themselves earning promotion again. However, it is Savoie that wins the 2e championnat. Scavattori di Pozzi somehow surprise everyone by avoiding last place - by one point.

Deuxième Championnat        Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Savoie Associée           38   29   3   6   106   44  +62    90
 2 Col-De-Môse               38   23   8   7    71   50  +21    77
 3 Actwell                   38   21   9   8    92   71  +21    72
 4 FC Hamwich 89             38   20   8  10    63   44  +19    68
 5 Baden Heidelberg          38   19  10   9    55   40  +15    67
 6 FC Hanting                38   19   8  11    59   44  +15    65
 7 Slynwell                  38   19   6  13    61   62   −1    63
 8 ASC Renting               38   18   7  13    74   53  +21    61
 9 Canton-Ouest              38   17  10  11    79   66  +13    61
10 Sportclub St. Karl        38   13  14  11    66   55  +11    53
11 Ramton                    38   11  15  12    58   60   −2    48
12 Boruncia                  38   12  11  15    70   79   −9    47
13 Cinizio                   38   13   7  18    54   63   −9    46
14 Lampadaires Associés      38   11  10  17    62   78  −16    43
15 Canting-Aexwell           38    7  13  18    69   90  −21    34
16 Assalto Alpino            38    8  10  20    60   90  −30    34
17 FC Hoping                 38    6  14  18    68   82  −14    32
18 Les Raptors               38    6  10  22    50   79  −29    28
19 Scavatori di Pozzi        38    7   7  24    43   83  −40    28
20 Sportverein Hesse         38    5  12  21    34   61  −27    27
Green: Liga B Champions' Cup & Promotion

Stomford 1904 wins its second title, back-to-back with its first. No other team has accomplished back-to-back titles in the ÉNFL, assuming that we don't count Reçueçn FC winning the qualification season and then the 'first' season.

Premier Championnat       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Stomford 1904           30   15   7   8    45   38   +7    52 CL, LdV
 2 Heldingen 1919          30   15   5  10    57   42  +15    50 CC, LdV
 3 Renwyll                 30   14   7   9    49   49    0    49 CC, TdC
 4 FC Harrim               30   13   9   8    46   41   +5    48 CC
 5 Écho SC                 30   12   9   9    38   31   +7    45
 6 Genève Bord-de-Lac      30   12   8  10    60   58   +2    44
 7 Reçueçn FC              30   11   9  10    25   26   −1    42
 8 Bonneville Sportif      30   11   8  11    59   61   −2    41
 9 FC Zimmerich            30   10  10  10    62   55   +7    40
10 Itrino                  30   11   7  12    65   69   −4    40
11 Tyvania                 30    9  12   9    33   37   −4    39
12 Sportive Annedine       30   10   7  13    54   59   −5    37
13 Association Genève      30    9   9  12    53   54   −1    36
14 Ville-Sur-Rivière       30    9   8  13    35   40   −5    35
15 Arly                    30    9   7  14    45   47   −2    34
16 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré      30    6   6  18    49   68  −19    24
Green: International Play
Red: Relegation

by **Recuecn** » Sat Jan 02, 2021 3:04 am

LNRF Season 8

Le Championnat

Le Championnat           Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Heldingen 1919         30   17   7   6    56   39  +17    58 CL, LdV
 2 Genève Bord-de-Lac     30   15   6   9    56   45  +11    51 CC, LdV
 3 Savoie Associée        30   15   5  10    64   56   +8    50 CC, TdC
 4 Reçueçn FC             30   15   4  11    30   21   +9    49 CC
 5 Itrino                 30   14   7   9    68   63   +5    49
 6 Bonneville Sportif     30   12  10   8    56   45  +11    46
 7 Stomford 1904          30   14   3  13    72   68   +4    45
 8 FC Harrim              30   13   6  11    37   33   +4    45
 9 Association Genève     30   13   5  12    65   59   +6    44
10 Renwyll                30   12   7  11    49   51   −2    43
11 Sportive Annedine      30   10   9  11    48   50   −2    39
12 Col-De-Môse            30   10   8  12    44   49   −5    38
13 Tyvania                30   10   5  15    33   39   −6    35
14 Écho SC                30    8   7  15    29   38   −9    31
15 Actwell                30    5   8  17    45   73  −28    23
16 FC Zimmerich           30    5   7  18    54   77  −23    22

Deuxième Championnat

Deuxième Championnat     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 FC Hanting             38   28   4   6    87   54  +33    88 LBCT
 2 Ville-Sur-Rivière      38   23   8   7    77   38  +39    77 LBCT
 3 Baden Heidelberg       38   23   8   7    46   19  +27    77 LBCT
 4 Arly                   38   23   7   8    99   64  +35    76
 5 ASC Renting            38   21   7  10    80   60  +20    70
 6 Boruncia               38   17  11  10    70   61   +9    62
 7 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré     38   18   7  13    84   67  +17    61
 8 FC Hoping              38   16  11  11    85   74  +11    59
 9 Sportclub St. Karl     38   14  12  12    67   71   −4    54
10 FC Hamwich 89          38   15   7  16    51   61  −10    52
11 Canton-Ouest           38   14   9  15    82   82    0    51
12 Cinizio                38   13  10  15    59   60   −1    49
13 Canting-Aexwell        38   11  12  15    61   67   −6    45
14 Slynwell               38   11  12  15    58   64   −6    45
15 Assalto Alpino         38   13   6  19    66   82  −16    45
16 Ramton                 38   11  10  17    71   83  −12    43
17 Lampadaires Associés   38    9   7  22    80  104  −24    34
18 Sportverein Hesse      38    8   9  21    33   48  −15    33
19 Les Raptors            38    7   8  23    44   76  −32    29
20 Scavatori di Pozzi     38    1   3  34    37  102  −65     6

by **Recuecn** » Sat Mar 27, 2021 4:17 am

LNRF Season Nine Rosters and Preseason

Le Deuxième Championnat

Écho SC

Roster
Manager: Luis Nebe

Starters

#1 Donte Patton (GK, 37); #2 Davis Savoy (LB, 26); #3 Guido Guidi (CB, 27); #4 Guy Robuck (RB, 29); #5 Dany Malet (SW, 24); #11 Dastid Murati (LW, 25); #14 Matthias Delsarte (RW, 35); #16 Ernest Vernier (LM, 27); #17 Lambert Suess (DM, 28); #20 Florentin Jöllenbeck (RM, 28); #21 Geoffroy Hémery (ST, 26)

Reserves

#6 Charles Gounelle (RB, 25); #7 Bryan Webb (LW, 34); #12 Louis Besnard (LM, 27); #15 Curril Thika (SW, 27); #18 Jonathan Lazard (AM, 26); #19 Félix Kléber (RM, 25); #22 Bastien Gilson (RW, 25); #23 Dante Salone (GK, 27); #24 Edmund Braune (CF, 25); #25 Jordan Beaubois (SW, 27)

Actwell

Roster
Manager: Hyron LeBouffe

Starters

#1 Damien Bocuse (GK, 26); #4 Elmer McPherson (RB, 27); #7 Ethan Marsh (RW, 28); #9 Mason Sharp (CF); #10 Antonia Desilva (AM); #11 Gianpaolo Serio (LW, 32); #13 Benoît Beaufort (LB); #16 Brandon Harper (RM, 27); #18 Dylan Vigouroux (CB, 26); #19 Léon Bélanger (LM, 28); #26 Serge Caron (CF)

Reserves

#2 Omer Barthet (LB, 28); #3 Oscar Best (LB, 25); #5 Benjamin Murray (CB, 34); #6 Abélard Renou (CM, 31); #8 Ellis Russell (DM); #12 Niko Rehberg (GK, 37); #14 Winoc Bureau (LM, 23); #15 Paul Heintze (RB, 26); #17 Simon Roux (RM, 28); #20 Josselin Victor (RM, 27); #21 Hugues Berger (CF, 25); #22 Engelbert Boesch (LW, 26); #23 Samuel Gailey (LM, 26); #24 Léonard Gauthier (RW, 28); #25 David Speckmann (AM, 29)

FC Zimmerich

Roster
RNFA Representative: Ben Müller
Manager: Nick Seck

Starters

#1 Abia Becken (GK, 28); #3 Louis Granville (CB, 24); #6 Arne Heissler (DM, 28); #7 Jean-Pierre Kaplan (RM, 28); #8 Robert Chéreau (LM); #9 Lamprecht Breitbarth (LW); #10 Valéry Bossuet (RW); #17 Sicuro Novara (LB, 28); #20 Rodolphe Trudeau (SW, 25); #21 Ly Nasser (CF, 27); #27 Nathanaël Trouvé (RB)

Reserves

#2 Aidan Huffman (CF, 33); #4 Engelbrecht Schiele (LB, 23); #5 Soren Ebbesen (RB, 26); #11 Rudolf Assing (RB, 27); #12 Thomas Münchberg (CB, 27); #14 Severo Sicari (LW, 24); #15 Thomas Cerf (RB, 26); #16 Georges Rigal (DM, 31); #19 Vinzenz Wehner (LM, 27); #22 Malte Lobe (GK, 27); #23 Raymond Short (RM, 33); #24 Kennith Merriweather (SW, 35)

Arly

Roster
Manager: Ferdinand Blancmagne

Starters

#1 Ansaldo Dolfi (GK, 31); #2 Benedikt Bohn (CF, 34); #3 Torben Holz (LB, 33); #4 Évrard Bourneuf (LM, 26); #5 Nicholas Luhman (RB, 27); #6 Giordano Tivoli (SW, 28); #7 Ulpiano Cotroneo (DM, 30); #11 Jason Sandoval (LW, 25); #12 Gabriel Henderson (RW, 29); #17 Constantin Pierre (RM, 27); #18 Jean-Marie Bret (CB, 27)

Reserves

#8 Günter Mommsen (RB); #9 Adalbrecht Neuner (SW); #10 Jalen Reeves (AM); #13 Aymeric Gagne (LM); #14 Mathias Mossé (RB, 24); #15 Franz Myrthenbaum (RB, 27); #16 Adam Senft (LB, 24); #19 Nils Chasalow (SW, 33); #20 Christian Gagneux (LB, 28); #21 Lilian De Villepin (SW, 32); #22 Rémy Traver (GK, 28); #23 Fabien Bernard (RB, 27); #24 Adalger Schechter (CM, 25); #25 Robert Leclair (LW, 28)

ASC Renting

Roster
Manager: Gotthard Leiner

Starters

#1 Edgar Friedrich (GK, 27); #5 Kasden Tzelili (GK, 24); #6 Enzo Gounelle (LB, 28); #8 Kunz Brandler (LM); #10 Adalfredo Bongiovanni (CF); #11 Côme Carrel (LW, 31); #19 Germain Duchamp (CB, 24); #23 Étienne Delacroix (RM, 27); #24 Noa Sault (RW, 24); #26 Léonard Bureau (AM); #27 Bastien Cloutier (RB)

Reserves

#2 Eberardo Cifarelli (GK, 37); #4 Ludovic Boutet (SW, 22); #7 Norbert Affré (CB, 25); #12 Lambert Arsenault (DM, 24); #14 Gundulf Benoist (RM, 25); #15 Mathis Crevier (LM, 31); #16 Kay Huppert (SW, 28); #17 Jean Geffroy (RB, 25); #21 Berndt Rheingold (CM, 24); #22 Ludo Leblanc (CM, 24); #25 Nicodème Segal (DM, 28)

Boruncia

Roster
Manager: Henny Muntz

Starters

#1 Baldur Tarr (GK, 34); #3 Cullen Salant (CB, 33); #5 Chi Drone (RW, 32); #8 Steen Hjort (RM); #10 Wenzel Hettinger (LW); #14 Enrico Nizzola (LB, 28); #15 Jean-Marie Blondeau (SW, 28); #18 Henri Lyon (AM, 26); #26 Adalwin Sachs (RB); #29 Kevin Assing (ST)

Reserves

#12 Ulrich Geller (CB, 30); #16 Lif Gjoni (LM, 28); #17 Christian Himmelblau (DM, 26); #19 Clément Leclercq (RM, 24); #21 Lorenz Kornblum (GK, 25); #23 Robin Scheck (SW, 28); #24 Olaf Körver (SW, 25); #25 Jacob Katzmann (LB, 28); #27 Baudouin Lachance (CB); #28 Stéphane Oliver (CF)

Hôtel Chapelle-Pré

Roster
Manager: Gautier Duval

Starters

#1 Biagio Solazzo (GK, 27); #2 Bernard Wellington (SW, 27); #3 Tobie Beauvau (CB, 32); #4 Niceto Colapietro (DM, 36); #5 Roméo Demaret (CM, 35); #6 Aleandro Scarlata (LB, 31); #8 David Hughes (LM); #11 Wittie Zaleznik (LW, 29); #19 Lilian Escoffier (RM, 25); #22 Christian Goethe (RB, 26); #29 Boniface Bellegarde (RW)

Reserves

#7 Gaby Mace (LB, 27); #9 Marlon Daugherty (LB); #10 Erhard Siemon (LM); #12 Kyle Cooley (LW, 26); #13 Vincent Sardou (LM); #14 Bledaret Boja (DM, 26); #17 Jean-Charles Lortie (CF, 25); #20 Jeremias Schwann (CM, 35); #21 Arminio Tarro (RW, 33); #23 Colin Lazard (SW, 24); #24 Jérôme Chevalier (SW, 30); #25 Édouard Besnard (RM, 25); #26 Robin Oldenberg (LM)

FC Hoping

Roster
Manager: Jan Kruspe

Starters

#1 Larry Donovan (GK, 35); #3 Frederik Pihl (CB, 28); #6 Aguinaldo Silvestre (RM, 27); #7 Gerd Bormann (RW, 27); #8 Gedeone Mion (LB); #10 Andrew Mcginn (CF); #13 Bruno Gouin (CM); #18 Justin Sylvestre (LW, 26); #20 Abeau Larousse (SW, 27); #24 Amaranto Bellissimo (LM, 30)

Reserves

#5 Concetto Lagomarsino (CM, 29); #9 Fabien Toutain (AM); #12 Fraunçouès Osmont (GK, 24); #14 Renaud Levasseur (GK, 26); #15 John Brown (RM, 30); #17 Gaëtan Dupuy (RW, 28); #19 Cyrille Appell (ST, 28); #21 Paolo Pierini (RB, 26); #22 Gérard Robiquet (SW, 36); #26 Antero Venezio (LM); #27 Roger Carrell (CM); #28 Tony Saunders (CB)

Sportclub St. Karl

Roster
Manager: Edward Knight

Starters

#1 Timo Kaulbach (GK, 26); #2 Maxence Spanghero (SW, 28); #5 Elliott Knobloch (LB, 25); #6 Apollo Goff (LM, 34); #10 Selig Habbal (CF); #17 Hugues Delafose (AM, 35); #19 Karl Arbeit (CB, 28); #20 Germain Magnier (RB, 27); #21 Brandon Hamilton (LW, 28); #22 Hanspeter Baumgärtner (RM, 28); #23 Jean-Noël LeBeau (RW, 28)

Reserves

#4 Matthieu Portier (CB, 26); #7 Louis Duval (LM, 25); #9 Martial Bruneau (ST); #11 Frank Tischendorf (CF, 28); #12 Felix Baumeister (AM, 28); #18 Sieger Andreas (LM, 34); #24 Hannes Kohler (CF, 30); #25 Pascal Wehner (ST, 28); #26 Diocleziano Polidoro (GK)

FC Hamwich 89

Roster
Manager: Anton Leitner

Starters

#1 Dagny Bernardo (GK, 32); #3 Blake Kring (CB, 26); #10 Eckehard Rommel (RB); #13 Driton Dervishi (RW); #15 Édouard Guillaume (SW, 25); #19 Gregor Bäumler (LM, 28); #20 Lars Glück (RM, 28); #22 Norbert Schneiderman (ST, 28); #27 Jonathan Bechtold (LB); #31 August Bäcker (CM)

Reserves

#2 Wolfgang Ehlers (AM, 22); #4 Udo Stockhausen (DM, 23); #6 Edwin Potts (GK, 32); #12 Ludwig Pöpel (CB, 25); #14 Armand Vannier (SW, 33); #21 Oscar Quaschny (LW, 26); #23 Tobias Goedde (CF, 24); #24 Bert Wallner (RW, 27); #25 Lars Riemenschneider (GK, 26); #26 Timo Ehrenbaum (SW); #28 Eckhard Josten (RB); #29 Friedhold Fromm (LB); #30 Günter Achenbach (LM)

Canton-Ouest

Roster
Manager: Drake Kicks

Starters

#1 Adalardo Pozza (GK, 32); #2 Till Kesselman (LB, 34); #3 Remy Rossignol (SW, 27); #4 Sebastian Orndorff (CB, 25); #9 Remy Jacquemin (ST); #11 Gregorius Hughson (LW, 27); #20 Lucas Pascal (RB, 27); #24 Tristan Pomeroy (LM, 27); #25 Achille Caiazzo (AM, 27); #26 Corradino Casale (RM); #27 Romuald Bruguière (RW)

Reserves

#5 Jonathan Craig (RM, 28); #6 Mathieu Jeannin (LM, 24); #7 Tonni Bang (RW, 27); #8 Bernard Grandis (CM); #10 Hervé Botrel (CF); #12 Régis Beaux (GK, 26); #13 Landon Simon (SW); #16 Théo Chausson (LB, 28); #21 Veit Aigner (LW, 29); #22 Reuben Shaw (LW, 28); #28 Mauro Stilo (DM); #29 Gaylord Portier (RW); #30 Luc Rigal (GK)

Cinizio

Roster
Manager: Fabio Iorio

Starters

#1 Pantaleo Corvi (GK, 35); #2 Jean-Guy Jégou (CB, 29); #3 Burkhard Korsch (LB, 30); #4 Bruno Dubos (RB, 28); #6 Gaspare D'Antona (LM, 27); #8 Noé Batteux (RM); #9 Bruno Saldanha (ST); #13 Elvino Buratti (RW); #16 Vodingo Balboni (LW, 28); #24 Costanzo Turati (DM, 28); #26 Basilio Sordi (CF)

Reserves

#11 Sigfrido Ferrari (LM, 28); #12 Clemente Commisso (CF, 25); #14 Durante Nicodemo (RW, 26); #17 Erminio Abategiovanni (SW, 25); #18 Aurélien Chausson (SW, 25); #19 Desiderato Albo (SW, 28); #20 Caino Carrara (LB, 25); #21 Narseo De Renzo (CB, 28); #22 Didimo Tesoriero (RB, 28); #25 Lauriano Mastrandrea (ST, 27); #28 Luca Santell (CF)

Canting-Aexwell

Roster
Manager: Joël Boffrand

Starters

#1 Valéry Grinda (GK, 27); #2 Timóteo Tomás (LB, 28); #3 Ervin Kuris (SW, 31); #4 Baldassarre Pase (CB, 27); #6 Danial Edison (RB, 25); #8 Bernard Beaulne (RM); #9 Benjamin Couvreur (ST); #11 Raniero Malfitano (LW, 26); #17 Clément Granet (LM, 28); #19 Tancrède Mortimer (RW, 27); #21 Olaf Morgentaler (CM, 27)

Reserves

#5 Ildefonso Stagno (RB, 28); #7 Adolphe Geffroy (ST, 24); #10 Eckardt Haushofer (CF); #12 Meinrad Große (GK, 27); #13 Raphaël Geffroy (CB); #14 Bruno Simon (SW, 27); #15 Edgar Freundlich (LB, 28); #16 Aymeric Mignard (RB, 25); #18 Roch Girardot (RB, 35); #20 Francis Jacquier (LM, 27); #22 Jean-Charles Bourque (RM, 26); #24 Eduard Gerster (AM, 25); #25 Jean Auger (LW, 24); #26 Ludovic Boudreaux (GK)

Slynwell

Roster
Manager: Hugo Drewes

Starters

#1 Leroy Howe (GK, 29); #2 Engelbrecht Panzer (RB, 33); #3 Roman Bambach (CB, 27); #4 Bastiano Franchi (LB, 31); #6 Ecclesio Cassone (RM, 32); #7 Boniface Boudon (LM, 25); #8 Manuel Gérin-Lajoie (RW); #11 Lucrèce Montgomery (LW, 27); #14 Foster Shelburne (SW, 37); #20 Koloman Ott (CM, 23); #25 Marc-Antoine Marchal (CF, 27)

Reserves

#5 Désiré Milhaud (DM, 34); #9 Jean Badeaux (RB); #10 Luca Bianculli (GK); #12 Denis Berger (GK, 27); #13 Edwin Higgins (CB); #17 Gotthard Walther (LM, 28); #18 Austin Glover (RW, 27); #19 Frankie Spiridigliozzi (RW, 28); #21 Hans-Günther Jung (AM, 27); #22 Erdmann Graf (RM, 27); #23 Harald Schuler (LW, 24); #24 Norbert Beaux (LW, 24); #26 Wieland Kunz (CF)

Assalto Alpino

Roster
Manager: Bill Runkin
Assistant Manager: Ettore Sisti

Starters

#1 Gaspare Castiglia (GK, 36); #3 Gabriel Mitchell (CB, 27); #8 Maynard Hebron (RM); #9 Guis Bonner (CF); #14 Élisée Calvet (LM, 29); #16 Marco Sacco (CB, 25); #17 Mauro Terranova (RB, 27); #18 Porthos Poincaré (DM, 26); #23 Giraldo Rana (RW, 27); #27 Teofilo Corrà (LW); #31 Lando Brivio (SW)

Reserves

#11 Corrado Scenna (SW, 25); #12 Edmond Cousteau (GK, 30); #15 Claude Gaudin (RM, 32); #19 Renaud Demaret (ST, 26); #20 Sabino Gronchi (LM, 24); #21 Clemente Gabrielli (LW, 26); #22 Gottlob Blau (ST, 23); #24 Clair Perrault (CF, 25); #25 Walther Prantl (LM, 32); #26 Giacinto Bicchieri (RW); #28 Bastien Battier (CM); #29 Tiziano Romagna (CM)

Ramton

Roster
Manager: Pierre Bonnot

Starters

#1 Giulio Pavlon (GK, 30); #2 Dwight Peck (SW, 26); #3 Jacob Paulsen (LB, 25); #4 Paul Harding (CB, 28); #5 Bertrand Berger (RB, 29); #6 Alphonse Cochet (CM, 27); #9 Jean-Christophe Lemoine (RW); #12 Raymond Caron (RM, 28); #18 Arne Franz (LM, 30); #22 Reinhold Madelung (LW, 28); #24 Ulrich Winkler (CF, 27)

Reserves

#7 Ansgar Bloch (DM, 32); #16 Jean Jauffret (LB, 28); #19 Klemens Winkelhock (SW, 27); #20 Othmar Hofmann (LM, 28); #21 Kunz Fellgiebel (RM, 27); #23 Denis Scharff (LB, 27); #25 Nicolas Koehler (ST, 27); #26 Benedict Breuer (CF); #27 Jean-Joël Leblanc (RW); #28 Jean-Loup Sylvestre (RW); #29 Stephen Medina (DM); #32 Nicola Weyrauch (CM)

Lampadaires Associés

Roster
Manager: Jean-Pascal Arceneaux

Starters

#1 Cédric Laframboise (GK, 30); #2 Félix Couturier (CB, 33); #3 Ambrogio Badolato (RB, 34); #5 Maurice Jaubert (LB, 25); #9 Igino Leccese (LM); #11 Igor Chevotet (CF, 27); #13 Igon Garaiburu (RM); #21 Hunter Vance (LW, 27); #22 Jean-Baptiste Brochard (RW, 31); #25 Louie Green (SW, 25); #26 Hector Crépin (CM)

Reserves

#6 Dominique Brunet (CB, 27); #7 Lionel Dior (RM, 25); #8 Vincent Blanc (RW); #12 Edouard Veil (GK, 28); #15 Torben Brestrich (CB, 27); #16 Kévin Robillard (ST, 28); #17 Martial Noir (CF, 25); #18 Christian Baume (CF, 26); #19 Èrthu de Bellièvre (LM, 35); #20 Valentin Leblanc (CM, 25); #23 Augustine Denbaars (RB, 34); #27 Siegmund Käutner (SW)

Sportverein Hesse

Roster
Manager: Albert Mengelberg

Starters

#2 Évrard Alarie (CB, 28); #3 Euseo Volino (LB, 24); #5 Osbert Duval (DM, 29); #9 Colin Boffrand (CF); #11 Niko Strobel (LM, 27); #12 Fabien Jacquinot (GK, 27); #15 Phillip Kuchler (SW, 28); #16 Pascal Féret (RB, 28); #18 Achim Lotz (RM, 27); #21 Stanislaus Seydel (LW, 32); #25 Ägid Baum (RW, 27)

Reserves

#1 Angelo Paasche (GK, 28); #4 Vilfredo Li Volsi (RB, 28); #6 Priamo Pellegrino (CM, 30); #7 Ramsey Glenister (CB, 35); #8 Adalwin Höfle (CB); #13 Garrott Ferraro (LB); #14 Georges Sardou (CB, 25); #17 Ignace Rémy (RB, 27); #19 Engelbert Frank (CB, 28); #20 Stanislaus Pracht (LW, 26); #22 Fergus Edison (SW, 28); #23 Fredric Lacefield (CM, 28); #24 Maximilian Schönherr (RW, 26); #26 Serge Chappelle (DM)

Les Raptors

Roster
Manager: Frank Winsome

Starters

#1 Benjamin Evans (GK, 39); #2 Jonathan Leblond (SW, 28); #4 Garrett Burton (RB, 25); #5 Jordan Cartier (LB, 27); #9 Kai Jespersen (ST); #10 Gerwald Brandis (CM); #11 Aaron Chapuis (LW, 30); #16 Ignace Crozier (RM, 29); #19 Gustave Devillers (CB, 26); #27 Edmond Léger (RW); #28 Sarle de Vere (LM)

Reserves

#3 Julien Valluy (AM, 24); #6 Julius Hector (DM, 25); #8 Matthew Bowers (AM); #12 Rasiphe Caillot (DM, 28); #18 Ludovic Courbis (LB, 23); #20 Alviero Anello (AM, 27); #21 Remy Soyer (RB, 23); #22 Christopher Subercaseaux (LM, 27); #23 Pons Lesauvage (RM, 26); #24 Cédric Aubert (LW, 24); #25 Nathan Crevier (CF, 27); #26 Shane Parkin (AM)

Scavatori di Pozzi

Roster
Manager: Gilles Archer
Assistant Manager: Elogio Tuscano

Starters

#1 Bernhart Herbig (GK, 25); #3 Anselmo Calabrese (LB, 27); #4 Sostene Baldassari (CB, 28); #5 Fausto Alderisi (RB, 28); #6 Giampaolo Altamura (AM, 25); #8 Beniamino Rizzo (RW); #10 Gervasio Nannini (LM); #14 Pierre-Louis D'Amboise (RM, 35); #20 Hubert Quint (CF, 32); #21 Jackson Bristol (LW, 28)

Reserves

#2 Emmanuel Houdin (DM, 28); #7 Siricio Palleschi (ST, 26); #9 Renzo Cremona (CF); #11 Verecondo Roso (LW, 22); #12 Isembart Grouchet (CB, 28); #13 Joël Berengar (RB); #15 Icaro Santarsiero (RW, 24); #16 Ivan Michelsen (LM, 24); #17 Natanaele Agnelli (GK, 25); #18 Mennone Di Fiore (RM, 25); #19 Isaiah Weeks (LW, 36); #22 Iñizio Hurzurigarai (SW, 27); #28 Roméo Chausson (AM)

Le Championnat

Heldingen 1919

Roster
Manager: Marius Hecher

Starters

#1 Jannick Bechtholdt (GK, 36); #2 Stefan Beckmann (LB, 24); #9 Ylljet Amiti (ST); #10 Theodore Dolloway (AM); #11 Dominic Cecchi (LW, 25); #14 Barnabus Mercer (RB, 30); #15 Luc Pélissier (LM, 35); #17 Helibert Wolf (RW, 25); #18 Waldemar Weintraub (RM, 28); #22 Reynaldo Stong (CB, 28); #29 Jonas Hirtreiter (DM)

Reserves

#3 Carl Wentzel (RM, 23); #4 Petrus Schilder (RM, 24); #6 Taylor Dunlap (CM, 27); #8 Ingolf Nowitzki (LM); #12 Pete Crace (GK, 34); #13 Étienne Duchamps (LB); #16 Jaxen Lamb (CM, 31); #19 Alban Pelletier (CF, 27); #20 Gregor Grabner (ST, 27); #25 Turstin Mayoh (CB, 27); #26 Yraid Yassun (CM); #28 Pierre-Antoine Saint-Yves (RW)

Genève Bord-de-Lac

Roster
Manager: Gaspard Boissieu

Starters

#1 Désiré Mossé (GK, 28); #2 Olaf Dohna (CB, 25); #3 Deodato Passante (LB, 28); #7 Hubert Loupe (RW, 30); #8 Colby Mcneil (CM); #11 Diomede Trevisan (LW, 27); #12 Glenden Terrell (RM, 28); #16 Charles Bachelot (LM, 28); #17 Dexter Durchville (ST, 27); #23 Jean-Yves Chevotet (LM, 28); #28 Clovis LeBeau (RB)

Reserves

#4 Aubin Chappuis (LB, 25); #9 Giosuele Sestito (CF); #10 Félix Gide (AM); #13 Ovidio Arrighi (SW); #14 Thomas Marchal (CB, 24); #15 Maxence Verninac (RB, 26); #18 Umile Ammirati (DM, 26); #19 Osmund Bove (CM, 26); #21 Ivan Norris (LW, 29); #24 Alban LeBeau (RM, 25); #25 Jocelyn Bouhier (RW, 25); #26 Eugène Dupuy (LM); #27 Vivien Kaplan (RM)

Savoie Associée

Roster
RNFA Representative: Jonathan Avoirpieds
Manager: Marc Voyard

Starters

#1 Guiscardo Cirillo (GK, 26); #2 Adalbrecht Taube (RM, 26); #3 Touénot Mandeville (CB, 27); #4 Abbondio Brunelli (LB, 28); #6 Anderson Belanger (CM, 32); #8 Linus Feulner (AM); #10 Auguste Chéreau (CF); #11 Maximilien Carbonneau (LW, 24); #14 Abeau Rouanet (RW, 25); #17 Djeferson Leloup (RB, 24); #22 Antoine Brousseau (LM, 25)

Reserves

#5 Jean-Marc Bescond (LM, 28); #9 Tom Thompson (SW); #15 Émilien Boutet (LW, 26); #16 Alban Grosjean (CB, 28); #19 Isaïe Asselineau (LB, 27); #20 Franck Côté (ST, 27); #24 Justin Cahun (GK, 23); #25 Ruben Breiner (SW, 29); #28 Étienne Gainsbourg (RM); #29 Abraham Vallotton (RW)

Reçueçn FC

Roster
RNFA Representative: Bill LaVoyard
Manager: Robby Hincklebacker

Starters

#1 Gerauld Firaut (GK, 29); #2 Leo Beck (SW, 33); #3 John Ward (LB, 27); #5 Jônas de Montchrestien (CB, 26); #6 Roméo Jacquard (CM, 34); #7 Jonah Montgomery (RM, 24); #20 Yves Dufour (RB, 25); #21 Bertrand Bonnay (LM, 28); #22 Pasqualino Parodi (DM, 28); #25 Aaron Niebuhr (RW, 25); #27 Leroy Topham (LW)

Reserves

#4 Lionel Desmarais (RB, 26); #9 Jean-Yves Barrault (ST); #10 William Lawrence (AM); #12 Rosaire Nicolas (GK, 27); #13 Thomas Büchel (RM); #14 Hagen Groos (SW, 28); #15 Enzo Simon (ST, 28); #16 Yves Devillers (LM, 27); #17 Nathan Cordonnier (GK, 24); #18 Alfred Guillory (LB, 27); #19 Florian Vaugrenard (CB, 26); #24 Manuel Sauvageau (RM, 24)

Itrino

Roster
Manager: Adone Corio

Starters

#2 Algas Hajdaraga (CB, 28); #4 Hartmut Nostitz (RB, 28); #5 Salim Condenzio (DM, 27); #11 Blaine Porter (LW, 27); #12 Frontiniano Arata (GK, 27); #17 Gioberto Taravella (RW, 28); #18 Anselm Pellegrino (LM, 33); #19 Gervais Jacquemin (ST, 28); #27 Hans Jonke (RM); #31 Garimberto Mastronardi (AM)

Reserves

#6 Hector Bullion (CM, 25); #9 Erik Hewitt (LB); #10 Aristotele Vitrano (CF); #13 Adolfo Pizzimenti (SW); #15 Viviano Vars (SW, 25); #16 Gonerio Alu (CB, 27); #20 Agazio Castro (RB, 25); #21 Gérôme Lozé (LW, 26); #22 Matroniano Nelli (RM, 28); #23 Bruno Chapuis (GK, 27); #24 Gérald Vandame (RW, 28); #25 Gillo Scianna (LB, 27); #26 Carmine Di Nardo (CF); #28 Ulpiano Carleo (ST); #29 Eraldo Del Negro (CM); #32 Mattia Zagami (DM)

Bonneville Sportif

Roster
Manager: Guillaume Delafosse

Starters

#1 Richard Beaumanoir (GK, 25); #2 Dillon Fry (RB, 25); #3 Axel Borup (SW, 27); #4 Archimede Lenzi (LB, 28); #5 Ghislain Archambault (CB, 31); #6 Andreas Masur (CM, 29); #15 Niko Groos (LM, 28); #19 Jérémy Colbert (CF, 27); #21 Sylvain Bazalgette (LW, 31); #26 António Do Rosário (RW); #27 Merle Pharr (RM)

Reserves

#7 Casto Camardo (AM, 27); #8 Archibald Deahguj (DM); #10 Valéry Derocles (RB); #11 Josef Hoffman (CB, 25); #12 Josué Bourgeois (SW, 25); #13 Miguel Clements (DM); #14 Yann Babineaux (LW, 27); #16 Jean-Claude Côté (LB, 24); #17 Jordan Sullivan (RM, 30); #18 Gustave Lacan (ST, 26); #20 Thibaud Gérald (RW, 24); #23 Johann Hofmeister (LB, 28); #24 Conrad Krause (LM, 27); #25 Paulin Bernier (LW, 24); #28 Armand Soyer (CB); #29 Denis Jacquemin (RB); #30 Koloman Gehrig (LM); #31 Didier Regnard (RM)

Stomford 1904

Roster
Manager: Marlin Vanbuskirk

Starters

#2 Earl Randall (SW, 25); #3 Damien Jennings (RB, 28); #5 Miché Thomas (CB, 25); #7 Narciso Venturo (LM, 28); #14 Björn Heilmann (CM, 27); #18 Wilfried Bauman (RM, 28); #21 Marc Schöner (LW, 27); #22 André Courtial (RW, 27); #26 Samuel Rademacher (CF)

Reserves

#6 Norberto Cruz (DM, 26); #8 Jacob Pippen (AM); #9 Ronald Kingery (RW); #12 Jâcob Seymour (RM, 31); #13 Maxime Pierlot (RB); #15 Murilo Bento (CB, 24); #17 Richard Morin (LM, 29); #19 Björn Mayenburg (RM, 27); #23 Poul Milone (GK, 28); #25 Norbert Heinecke (CB, 24); #27 Elias Tugendhat (ST); #29 Bernardo Nascimbene (CM)

FC Harrim

Roster
Manager: Wolfram Voight

Starters

#1 Estienne de Chefderue (GK, 25); #2 Cameron Richards (RB, 31); #4 Timothé Dieudonné (LB, 29); #5 Émeric Chappelle (DM, 36); #7 Dale Green (AM, 33); #8 Bert Häring (LM); #9 Erwin Tolkien (RM); #10 Cirillo Vrtilek (RW); #13 Tristan Kempf (CF); #15 Étienne Cruise (CB, 28); #18 Matthäus Behrend (LW, 24)

Reserves

#6 Gaétan Gribelin (SW, 30); #11 Xavier Baillieu (DM, 34); #12 Frank Jennings (SW, 28); #14 Erro Ainciburo (CM, 27); #16 Rino Bennardo (ST, 24); #17 Antonio Albertini (RW, 32); #19 Meinhard Wahner (LB, 27); #20 Sigmund Kayserling (AM, 36); #22 Claudio Prosdocimi (CB, 27); #24 Roger Rosenberger (GK, 27); #26 Quirin Voss (RB); #29 Harvey Macdonald (LW)

Association Genève

Roster
Manager: Jean-Pierre Boulet

Starters

#1 Michael Cooper (GK, 29); #2 Jean-Charles Nee (LB, 28); #3 Adam Ohlendorf (DM, 28); #4 Ryan Lloyd (RB, 30); #7 Harold Saunders (AM, 32); #10 Frank Franky Adams (CF); #11 Alceste Charbonnier (LW, 27); #15 Klemens Uebelhoer (CB, 29); #17 Michi Duval (LM, 31); #23 Elmar Weschler (RW, 27)

Reserves

#5 Adeodato Doto (SW, 26); #6 Maximilian Brandler (CM, 34); #9 Adrian Hasselvander (ST); #12 Jean-Loup Abbadie (CB, 28); #14 Caleb Evans (LB, 26); #16 William Livingstone (AM, 28); #19 Harold Harry Cherry (SW, 27); #20 Osvaldo Ohler (SW, 26); #21 Maximilian Pfister (RB, 27); #24 Lucien Valluy (CF, 23); #25 Bastien Pomeroy (ST, 25); #26 Heine Pilcz (GK); #28 Jaidyn Jefferson (LM)

Renwyll

Roster
Manager: Denis Leroux

Starters

#3 Alfons Metz (LB, 28); #9 Edoardo Rocchi (CB); #10 Pascal Planque (CM); #11 Leon Stock (LW, 26); #12 Félicien Brodeur (RM, 27); #13 Erich Ferber (CF); #15 Aubert Le Clerc (SW, 37); #18 Lewis Richfield (LM, 29); #21 Calanico Di Martino (GK, 28); #23 Edvard Batterton (RW, 26)

Reserves

#5 Jedidiah Lynn (DM, 32); #6 Christoph Kneller (LB, 27); #7 Eliseo Episcopo (AM, 31); #8 Van Kubiak (AM); #14 Taylor Lee (LW, 24); #16 Nathanaël Cailloux (LW, 28); #17 Lee Cash (RW, 32); #19 Adalberto Voltolini (ST, 25); #24 Lexoti Izcara (RW, 24); #27 Robin Serrano (RW); #28 Lauge Vinther (LW)

Sportive Annedine

Roster
Manager: Jérôme Condui

Starters

#1 Warinfreid Quièvremont (GK, 28); #2 Parmenio Tomasino (LB, 26); #3 Arden Kranz (RB, 32); #5 Égide Leroux (SW, 26); #6 Ansquetil de Bethencourt (DM, 25); #7 Gallien Mortimer (RM, 27); #9 Florent Brunet (ST); #17 Quentin Bourreau (LW, 28); #18 Ottmar Huffman (CB, 24); #19 Kasimir Böcker (LM, 27); #24 Richard Longchambon (RW, 24)

Reserves

#8 Frank Goff (CM); #10 Valentino Rais (LB); #11 Fabio Molitor (RB, 28); #13 Joesph Stillson (RM); #14 Eduardo Tavares (RB, 27); #15 Yannick Janvier (RW, 24); #16 Gauvain St Pierre (GK, 25); #20 Sacha Deniel (RM, 28); #21 Joshua Barr (AM, 30); #22 Asurdi Balinaga (ST, 26); #23 Jeffry Heist (DM, 29); #25 Corey Howell (RW, 30); #26 Rüdiger Grünspan (CM); #27 Jean-Yves Gaume (RB)

Col-de-Môse

Roster
Manager: Michel Montsaint

Starters

#1 Christopher Kirkland (GK, 25); #3 Sébastien Bougie (SW, 27); #4 Claude Courtet (CB, 25); #5 Jayson Compton (LB, 26); #6 Jordyn Myers (DM, 31); #8 Brenton Krahn (CM); #15 Constantino Andrade (LM, 28); #17 Ursmaro Previti (RM, 33); #20 Xavier Abadie (CF, 27); #21 Norbert Schneiderman (ST, 37); #26 Amerigo Linardos (RB)

Reserves

#2 Bernhard Gellner (AM, 30); #7 Cédric Hachette (CM, 32); #9 Maxence Bonnet (CF); #10 Robert Milhaud (AM); #11 Jörn Schädler (RB, 36); #12 Corradino Casale (LB, 24); #13 Diodoro Alleva (RB); #14 Kilian Waldow (RB, 28); #16 Lars Glück (LW, 26); #18 Günter Achenbach (RW, 28); #19 Jordan Beaubois (CF, 24); #22 Casimiro Castro (GK, 24); #23 Dylan Beaubois (RM, 28); #25 Thibaut Massé (LM, 29)

Tyvania

Roster
Manager: Giusto Palermo

Starters

#1 Pelaio Etchegoinberry (GK, 28); #3 Erhard Bergmann (CB, 27); #4 Hanns Haerig (LB, 28); #5 Isaac Chagnon (LM, 28); #6 Wilmer Normann (RM, 26); #8 Peter Boesen (AM); #9 Ottaviano De Capua (ST); #14 Eginardo Alteri (RW, 25); #17 Hobert Arledge (DM, 31); #21 Pankrazio Asuaga (LW, 28); #24 Berto Corna (RB, 28)

Reserves

#2 Adrione Nicolo (LB, 29); #7 Gautier Lestrange (LW, 28); #10 Robert Neese (CF); #11 Lino Reale (LW, 35); #12 Anatol Schult (CM, 26); #15 Martim Aguiar (LW, 25); #16 Piermarco Mazzarella (RM, 27); #18 Kieran Grant (AM, 30); #19 Dacio Scolaro (RB, 26); #23 Amadeo Minervino (RW, 21); #26 Rory Huber (RM); #27 Guido Ventre (CM); #29 Mauro Stilo (LM); #31 Achille Caiazzo (LW)

FC Hanting

Roster
Manager: Burt Renalds

Starters

#1 Mike Rehder (GK, 27); #2 Élisée Naudé (SW, 28); #4 Emanuel Marcaidagoitia (RB, 27); #5 Égide Bassot (DM, 27); #9 Ataleo Zero (RW); #12 Harold Erickson (LB, 32); #18 Jo Gerver (CB, 27); #20 Elmo Andreas (LM, 23); #23 Gebhard Reyer (RM, 25); #24 Ferdinando Condello (LW, 27); #26 Leonhard Borchard (ST)

Reserves

#7 Mathis Küchler (SW, 28); #8 Paulin Fétique (SW); #10 Finn Mcintosh (CF); #11 Filberto Kholyavenko (DM, 25); #13 Oskar Arneth (LB); #14 Karo Beibidea (LM, 25); #16 Coreno Guerra (SW, 28); #17 Hannes Abraham (LB, 28); #19 Mathias Messerli (CB, 26); #21 Carl Mandel (GK, 25); #22 Deodato Cerroni (RM, 24); #25 Gernot Spitznagel (LW, 25)

Ville-sur-Rivière

Roster
Manager: Homme Lenom

Starters

#1 Pompeo Pangallo (GK, 28); #2 Gian Marlow (LB, 30); #5 Britt Beaston (DM, 33); #7 Valentine Atwood (RW, 27); #10 Nico Hattenberger (LW); #13 Platur Kaleci (RM); #15 Cyrille Besson (LM, 26); #17 Friedrich Bronner (ST, 25); #20 Kyle Lawrence (AM, 25); #22 Quirino Lucian (CB, 26); #25 Charles Brugière (RB, 26)

Reserves

#3 Quentin Bethune (LB, 27); #4 Pretash Hoxha (LB, 25); #8 Ulpiano Guastella (CM); #11 Fred Lane (RB, 26); #12 Natanaël Boutroux (GK, 22); #14 Amaury Boulle (GK, 23); #18 Claudio Prosdocimi (RW, 28); #23 Melchior Rosenblum (SW, 26); #26 Berto Corna (RB); #28 Nazaire Fontaine (LM)

Baden Heidelberg

Roster
Manager: Oliver Grassl

Starters

#2 Alfontso Gabancho (CB, 28); #3 Levi Braney (LB, 34); #5 Anatol Fischbein (RB, 28); #7 Florencio Patman (LM, 28); #8 Éric Mignard (CF); #13 Plutarco Rosselli (RM); #15 Gaby Chastain (LW, 27); #26 Sigismund Leitgeb (AM); #29 Sandro Bierbaum (RW)

Reserves

#1 Graziano Piacentini (GK, 27); #11 Enzo Giovannucci (LM, 36); #12 Alex Bruguière (RB, 24); #14 Jean Bougie (CB, 27); #17 Jacob Rodenberg (LM, 24); #18 Berend Hammerl (RM, 27); #19 Gaël Garreau (SW, 28); #20 Michael Palme (GK, 25); #25 Emerson Stinchcomb (LM, 30); #27 Arthur Jonke (CB); #28 Tobie Brian (DM)

Preseason

As is tradition, the deuxième championnat got into the swing of things before the top tier, a scheduling decision made by the FNRF so that both leagues would play their final matches - and settle any promotion or relegation questions - on the same day. Since there are more teams in the deuxième championnat, the season is a bit longer, and therefore starts earlier. The period during which games are played in the deuxième championnat but not in le championnat is usually referred to, perhaps inaccurately, as the pre-season.

Coming into Season 9, it was Écho SC, Actwell, and FC Zimmerich who had been freshly demoted from the top flight and found themselves joining the rest of le deuxième championnat. Écho SC began things with a solid-looking one-nil victory over Ramton, then beat Les Raptors by a similar scoreline, before following that up with yet another win to put the team by itself at the head of le deuxième, this time beating FC Zimmerich by three to two. It was Slynwell who would first stem the tide on the fourth matchday, defeating Écho three-one, and allowing first Arly, then ASC Renting to take the lead in the standings. Of course at this point in the competition, leading by one or two points doesn't mean much at all, and Écho SC regained the top spot after just three matchdays to ensure that they were still number one at the moment championnat play was due to begin.

The other two teams coming down from the top tier have not done quite so well as their counterpart so far. FC Zimmerich has been giving strong showings and earned a spot in fourth for now. Actwell seems to have suffered a collapse and finds itself seventeenth. By far, however, the most exciting moment of the season so far has been Canton-Ouest's stunning home victory over Boruncia. On matchday seven, the francophone team played host for one of its German-speaking counterparts, and treated the fans to an absolutely spectacular goal-fest; after ninety minutes, the score was seven to five.

Sports analyst and commentators tried to make much of the game. Neither team was supposed to be especially good - they were both mid-ranked in the second tier - and neither team was thought to be stronger than the other. Many thought that the sheer number of goals, especially taking into account the scores of some other games in the league, signified that the traditional Reçuecian defensive tactics were falling by the wayside, perhaps in part due to Tremblay's retirement. Others pointed out that it seemed to be an isolated fluke, and both Borunica and Canton-Ouest have been known for being highly attacking teams in the past. Unfortunately then, the excitement of the high-scoring games we've seen may not last as the average goals per game regresses toward the mean.

Standings in the 2e championnat after eight matchdays.
                         Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Écho SC                 8    6   1   1    17   11   +6    19
 2 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré      8    5   1   2    17   11   +6    16
 3 ASC Renting             8    4   3   1    18   10   +8    15
 4 FC Zimmerich            8    5   0   3    21   15   +6    15
 5 Canting-Aexwell         8    4   3   1    16   11   +5    15
 6 Arly                    8    4   2   2    18   14   +4    14
 7 Canton-Ouest            8    4   2   2    22   20   +2    14
 8 Sportclub St. Karl      8    3   4   1    15   12   +3    13
 9 Cinizio                 8    4   1   3    21   20   +1    13
10 Slynwell                8    4   1   3    11   10   +1    13
11 Boruncia                8    3   3   2    21   19   +2    12
12 Les Raptors             8    3   2   3    12   15   −3    11
13 Ramton                  8    3   1   4    15   16   −1    10
14 Assalto Alpino          8    2   3   3    17   17    0     9
15 FC Hoping               8    2   3   3    13   14   −1     9
16 Lampadaires Associés    8    2   2   4    15   24   −9     8
17 Actwell                 8    1   3   4    11   15   −4     6
18 FC Hamwich 89           8    0   4   4    12   20   −8     4
19 Sportverein Hesse       8    1   0   7     6   14   −8     3
20 Scavatori di Pozzi      8    0   1   7     6   16  −10     1

by **Recuecn** » Sat Mar 27, 2021 5:39 pm

LNFR Season Nine

As the season officially kicked off with the first game in le championnat, le deuxième championnat was already moving into week nine. Écho SC, who had begun with the lead, then briefly lost it before getting it back, started off the official season with their second loss, a disappointing affair at home, conceding to guests Actwell, zero to two. Given Actwell's lacklustre season, this was particularly disappointing, even more so as it gave Hôtel Chapelle-Pré the chance to capitalize with a victory of their own to take the top spot on goal differential. Of course, with two teams on 19 points, four on 16, and five more with at least 13, it was too early to draw conclusions. But perhaps there was some sort of presage, as at the official season's halfway point, just over 60% of the way into the deuxième championnat's schedule, Hôtel Chapelle-Pré was again at the top of the pile.

Not that they had been there all along. Canton-Ouest and Arly had both had brief stints in the lead, and hovered near the top along with a few other teams: ASC Renting, FC Zimmerich and Écho SC were usually there to round out the top five or so. One big surprise was Lampadaires Associés, who came within a match of first place on matchday 17. It was a shock to the nation and more and more viewers began to tune in to the deuxième championnat to watch the Lampadaires' progression before they began to regress again, curious if they could pull off some sort of miracle. (For context, Lampadaires Associès are sometimes considered to be rivals with teams like Assalto Alpino and Scavatori di Pozzi, the latter of whom won only a single game last season and are yet to win in Season Nine. The Lampadaires have always done better than those two teams, but that's sort of who they're expected to compete with, so the idea that they might earn a promotion was the talk of all the Reçuecian sports publications for weeks.

After those couple weeks, however, the Lampadaires just stopped winning. Six matchdays later they had only accrued four more points, and had fallen back down the standings, although their early wins still propped them up to a solid mid-table ranking.

As if to counterbalance their descent, Actwell, for whom expectations of immediate repromotion had been high, yet who had begun the season languishing at the bottom of the table, began a steady ascent toward title contention. By matchday 8 they had only a single win. But as the season reached its half-way point they slipped into second place as if to say "Sorry we're late!"

As the season progresses towards its finish, a few questions remain. Will Écho SC be able to nudge itself back upwards the way Actwell has to earn its way back into le championnat next season? Will Actwell be able to sustain its climb? Will Hôtel Chapelle-Pré be able to keep them out of first? Will Scavatori di Pozzi ever get a win? Stay tuned!

Deuxième Championnat Standings after 23 Matchdays
                         Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré     23   14   6   3    55   35  +20    48
 2 Actwell                23   12   6   5    50   35  +15    42
 3 ASC Renting            23   11   8   4    50   33  +17    41
 4 Arly                   23   12   4   7    54   40  +14    40
 5 FC Zimmerich           23   12   4   7    54   42  +12    40
 6 Écho SC                23   11   6   6    36   24  +12    39
 7 FC Hoping              23   11   5   7    40   37   +3    38
 8 Canton-Ouest           23   11   4   8    49   46   +3    37
 9 Sportclub St. Karl     23    9   7   7    37   36   +1    34
10 Lampadaires Associés   23   10   4   9    50   53   −3    34
11 Boruncia               23    8   9   6    46   44   +2    33
12 Canting-Aexwell        23    7  10   6    39   35   +4    31
13 Cinizio                23    8   7   8    46   50   −4    31
14 FC Hamwich 89          23    8   6   9    35   34   +1    30
15 Slynwell               23    7   4  12    35   47  −12    25
16 Ramton                 23    6   5  12    41   48   −7    23
17 Sportverein Hesse      23    6   3  14    23   38  −15    21
18 Assalto Alpino         23    4   7  12    45   62  −17    19
19 Les Raptors            23    4   5  14    35   58  −23    17
20 Scavatori di Pozzi     23    0   8  15    16   39  −23     8

Le championnat has already provided endless entertainment in just the first half of its season. A few particularly good games come to mind: barnburners like Sportive Annedine's six-two thrashing of Tyvania on matchday 13; Renwyll's five-four nail-biting victory over FC Hanting on matchday 11; the edge-of-your-seat le classique on matchday 4 which played out to a scoreless draw.

Not only have the individual games been very fun to watch, but the fight for the spot at the head of the table has been fierce and competitive as well. Almost half the league is within two games of first place halfway through the season. Currently it is Renwyll who sits above the rest on twenty-nine points, a goal they achieved just two games ago when they overtook both Stomford 1904 and Reçueçn FC with a one-nil victory over FC Harrim while Stomford and Reçueçn both lost to Sportive Annedine and Genève Bord-de-Lac respectively.

Meanwhile, in the relegation zone, Itrino and Col-de-Môse seem to be in danger. Above them, Savoie Asociée and Baden Heidelberg must also be anxious, but have slightly less of a gap between them and the rest of the table. They still have half a season to prove they deserve to be among the rest.

Le Championnat standings after 15 matchdays.
                          Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts
 1 Renwyll                15    9   2   4    33   24   +9    29
 2 Stomford 1904          15    8   3   4    30   21   +9    27
 3 Reçueçn FC             15    7   6   2    20   11   +9    27
 4 Heldingen 1919         15    7   5   3    24   13  +11    26
 5 Association Genève     15    6   6   3    37   31   +6    24
 6 Ville-Sur-Rivière      15    6   5   4    28   24   +4    23
 7 FC Harrim              15    6   5   4    15   13   +2    23
 8 Bonneville Sportif     15    5   6   4    30   28   +2    21
 9 Sportive Annedine      15    6   2   7    41   40   +1    20
10 FC Hanting             15    6   2   7    26   34   −8    20
11 Genève Bord-de-Lac     15    4   7   4    20   20    0    19
12 Tyvania                15    5   3   7    17   23   −6    18
13 Baden Heidelberg       15    4   3   8    16   15   +1    15
14 Savoie Associée        15    3   6   6    21   29   −8    15
15 Col-De-Môse            15    2   4   9    20   40  −20    10
16 Itrino                 15    2   3  10    20   32  −12     9

by **Recuecn** » Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:58 pm

LNFR Season Nine
Part Two

Hôtel Chapelle-Pré was ahead at the halfway point and simply never let go. They won every game they needed to. FC Zimmerich chased them for large portions of the season, constantly a game back. Once, in week 33, they blipped one point ahead for a brief moment of glory. But Hôtel was back after their next game, defeating Scavatori di Pozzi to no one's surprise while Lampadaires Associés, to many people's surprise, held Zimmerich to a draw. Other than that one little variation, there was not a single change in the standings of the top six after week 31. It was Écho SC who kept their grasp on third place and the final promotion/LBCT spot.

With the title race settled before the last day of matches, those who were celebrating the most when the final whistle blew were, ironically, the supporters of the team that had finished last - Scavatori di Pozzi. Scavatori di Pozzi had not won a single game throughout the entire season. All nine of their points had come from draws. But in their very last game, visiting Sportclub St. Karl - not necessarily a particularly easy match - Scavatori finally managed to do it. Toward the end of a grueling game, still tied two-two in the seventy-eighth minute, right wing Beniamino Rizzo scored from twenty meters out to take the lead and finish the season with the side's first win. Seven Scavatori di Pozzi fans were in the stands at Sankt Karl, and the cameras cut to them jumping up and down ecstatically. In Domodossola, Scavatori's hometown and not a big place, people ran into the streets to celebrate the three points, although their team had been guaranteed to finish last months ago. Amid news clips covering the final games from le championnat, one was interspersed which became a national meme: a journalist standing in front of the crowd in Domodossola reporting on the team's win, when in the background someone yelled out in a strong local accent, "Next year we'll win two!"

Deuxième Championnat final standings.
                         Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts
 1 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré     38   23   9   6    93   59  +34    78
 2 FC Zimmerich           38   22   9   7    90   62  +28    75
 3 Écho SC                38   22   7   9    61   38  +23    73
 4 Arly                   38   21   8   9    93   67  +26    71
 5 ASC Renting            38   19   9  10    82   54  +28    66
 6 Actwell                38   17  10  11    86   74  +12    61
 7 Canton-Ouest           38   16   9  13    78   74   +4    57
 8 Boruncia               38   15  12  11    75   73   +2    57
 9 Sportclub St. Karl     38   14  11  13    71   70   +1    53
10 FC Hoping              38   15   8  15    66   70   −4    53
11 Cinizio                38   12  12  14    71   75   −4    48
12 Lampadaires Associés   38   13   9  16    81   90   −9    48
13 FC Hamwich 89          38   12  10  16    56   59   −3    46
14 Canting-Aexwell        38   10  15  13    71   73   −2    45
15 Slynwell               38   12   8  18    63   76  −13    44
16 Sportverein Hesse      38   12   7  19    42   59  −17    43
17 Ramton                 38   10  11  17    70   85  −15    41
18 Les Raptors            38   10  10  18    61   80  −19    40
19 Assalto Alpino         38    7  11  20    75   99  −24    32
20 Scavatori di Pozzi     38    1   9  28    29   77  −48    12

Green text means promotion and a spot in the LBCT.

Throughout the second half of the season, Reçueçn FC, Renwyll, and Stomford 1904 cycled through the top slot on the table, keeping it warm for each other in turns. Renwyll had held the spot as the league passed its halfway point, but a couple weeks later they were unseated by Stomford. The next game they took it back. A matchday later, however, was the second Classique of the season.

Usually the two most-watched games of each season, unless the title race boiled down to a particular match, le classique is the traditional face-off between Reçueçn FC and Association Genève, the two biggest sports rivals in the country. Reçueçn is known for its defensive style and Genève for the opposite, and they represent the two largest cities in the nation. When they faced off in the first half of the season in Reçueçn, the result was a wonderful game but a scoreless draw. This time, Manager Robby Hincklebacker coached his squad to a tightly-fought one-zero victory despite playing away.

Reçueçn's reward was not only a victory over their rivals, but also taking the top spot in the league, as Renwyll dropped three points to Baden Heidelberg. They'd stay there for a month before Stomford took it back. Once again, the German-speaking side only stayed on top for one week before being unseated by Renwyll. With two matches left to play in the season, it looked like Renwyll should have no trouble finishing it out and taking the title, but in their penultimate game Reçueçn beat Genève to take the lead again - Genève Bord-de-Lac this time. Association Genève had been performing well, but were in fourth, four points back so too far to be a threat. Stomford 1904 had taken a couple losses recently and so had fallen all the way to sixth, although the table was so tight that there was only a two-game gap between halfway down the table and second place.

As the last matchday rolled around it would be Renwyll's last chance to take back the spot they had had for a majority of the season, and playing against Tyvania, the odds were in their favor. Reçueçn FC would be facing off against Sportive Annedine, who presented more of a challenge. Sure enough, Annedine scored a goal 23 minutes in, putting Renwyll into first if results held. Then Tyvania scored, putting things back in Reçueçn's court. When Tyvania scored a second time just after half-time it seemed to be a done deal. But then in the 82nd minute, FC Harrim scored a goal in its game against Bonneville Sportif. Suddenly the entire season was flipped upside down. None of the three teams who had alternated at the top of the table would ultimately be taking the title. When Cirillo Vrtilek put a second ball in the net in the second minute of stoppage time, the whistle that blew moments afterward made it official. FC Harrim had won le championnat.

Meanwhile, some teams would be less happy at the end of the season. That Itrino was at the bottom was not a surprise after a long season of disappointment, but Genève Bord-de-Lac slipping into the relegation zone on the last day was quite upsetting for its fans. Reçueçn's attempt to use them as a stepping-stone to winning le championnat had bumped them down into the second tier. It had been a close affair - Col-de-Môse and Baden Heidelberg were only a couple points above them. Savoie Associée would round out the trio of teams going down, also a name few were surprised to see. But this meant it would be the first season for a while when none of the newly promoted teams were instantly sent right back down to the deuxième championnat.

                         Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 FC Harrim              30   14   9   7    33   25   +8    51
 2 Reçueçn FC             30   13  10   7    33   22  +11    49
 3 Association Genève     30   13   9   8    67   52  +15    48
 4 Renwyll                30   14   6  10    59   50   +9    48
 5 Stomford 1904          30   12  10   8    56   43  +13    46
 6 FC Hanting             30   13   7  10    47   49   −2    46
 7 Sportive Annedine      30   14   3  13    72   67   +5    45
 8 Heldingen 1919         30   10  13   7    43   37   +6    43
 9 Ville-Sur-Rivière      30   10  11   9    48   49   −1    41
10 Bonneville Sportif     30    8  13   9    58   57   +1    37
11 Tyvania                30    9  10  11    33   37   −4    37
12 Baden Heidelberg       30    8   9  13    24   25   −1    33
13 Col-De-Môse            30    9   6  15    48   73  −25    33
14 Genève Bord-de-Lac     30    6  13  11    41   48   −7    31
15 Savoie Associée        30    6  13  11    47   61  −14    31
16 Itrino                 30    6   8  16    49   63  −14    26

Green text indicates the league champion.
Blue text indicates a spot in international club competition.
Red text indicates relegation.

In international play, there was nothing but disappointment for the nation. No Reçuecian clubs made it out of the preliminary rounds in the IFCF. In the FFI, Genève Bord-de-Lac made it as far as the Taça das Confederações round of sixteen, before bowing out to Abanhfleft's Arsenal de Releinthi on losing its two games two to five and zero to one. Achieving any international club success for Reçueçn still seems to be a long way off.

by **Recuecn** » Mon Jul 05, 2021 8:27 pm

LNFR Season Ten

deuxieme championnat     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Genève Bord-de-Lac     38   26   7   5    94   52  +42    85     Promotion, Liga B Champions' Trophy
 2 Arly                   38   25   7   6    98   65  +33    82     Promotion, Liga B Champions' Trophy
 3 Savoie Associée        38   25   6   7   114   74  +40    81     Promotion, Liga B Champions' Trophy
 4 Actwell                38   25   3  10   105   71  +34    78
 5 Itrino                 38   21   9   8    90   53  +37    72
 6 FC Hoping              38   19  10   9    83   74   +9    67
 7 ASC Renting            38   20   6  12   100   82  +18    66
 8 Assalto Alpino         38   15   8  15    90   93   −3    53
 9 FC Hamwich 89          38   16   5  17    57   61   −4    53
10 Sportclub St. Karl     38   16   4  18    93   84   +9    52
11 Cinizio                38   13  11  14    65   76  −11    50
12 Ramton                 38   13   6  19    69   81  −12    45
13 Boruncia               38   12   8  18    67   75   −8    44
14 Sportverein Hesse      38   11   9  18    37   66  −29    42
15 Slynwell               38   10  11  17    55   59   −4    41
16 Canton-Ouest           38   10  11  17    65   74   −9    41
17 Canting-Aexwell        38    9  10  19    73   86  −13    37
18 Lampadaires Associés   38    7  15  16    69   86  −17    36
19 Les Raptors            38    4   6  28    58  113  −55    18
20 Scavatori di Pozzi     38    4   6  28    47  104  −57    18

le championnat           Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Association Genève     30   18   5   7    61   40  +21    59     Champions' League, League of Victors
 2 Heldingen 1919         30   15   8   7    59   43  +16    53     Challengers' Cup, League of Victors
 3 FC Zimmerich           30   13   9   8    51   45   +6    48     Challengers' Cup, Confederations' Trophy
 4 Écho SC                30   13   8   9    43   43    0    47     Challengers' Cup
 5 Sportive Annedine      30   12  10   8    59   51   +8    46
 6 Renwyll                30   12   9   9    61   49  +12    45
 7 Ville-Sur-Rivière      30   12   7  11    47   41   +6    43
 8 Col-De-Môse            30   11   9  10    46   40   +6    42
 9 Bonneville Sportif     30   10  11   9    56   49   +7    41
10 Reçueçn FC             30   10   9  11    31   34   −3    39
11 Stomford 1904          30    9  11  10    44   45   −1    38
12 FC Harrim              30    8  14   8    31   33   −2    38
13 Baden Heidelberg       30   10   7  13    23   32   −9    37
14 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré     30    9   5  16    41   60  −19    32     Relegation
15 Tyvania                30    5   8  17    16   35  −19    23     Relegation
16 FC Hanting             30    3  10  17    29   58  −29    19     Relegation

by **Recuecn** » Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:58 am

LNRF Season Eleven Rosters and Preseason

After another time dilation-affected hiatus, La Ligue Nationale de Reçueçn de Football is kicking things off again for its eleventh season. As has become tradition, Le Deuxième Championnat began league play before Le Championnat itself, due to its longer schedule. This period is often referred to as the "pre-season", since it takes place over a few weeks before the league begins in earnest with the first matches in Le Championnat. Let's take this time to provide a brief overview of the teams in the LNRF.

In this preview and throughout our coverage of the rest of the season, we will be paying particular attention to one team: Savoie Associée. This "Team Highlight" section will hopefully provide a more personal, detailed point of view into the functioning of the LNRF, and if we are lucky, we hope to continue this series in future seasons with highlights focusing on other teams.

Team Highlight
Savoie Associée
-          Team Crest          -                              Team Jerseys                               -
History
Many of the clubs in the LNRF have a history that stretches back well upward of a century. Such is not the case for Savoie Associée. The club was founded in Chambéry in the early seventies, with its main backing from the middle-class, sporty types in the city. Prior to the much more recent founding of the LNRF, there was no organized league play in the nation, and clubs that didn't manage to sneak into other countries' league systems had to organize their own schedule to get by. There were many friendly games and local derbies in this period.

Savoie Associée did fairly well for themselves as a new club, especially with the date of their foundation coming so late in the game, as it were. There were not many other strong teams in their immediate area, and their fanbase continued to grow as they established themselves as the club in Chambéry, itself a decently sized city in the region. With a larger base of both fans and of talent to draw from, the club continued to grow and improve gradually over the first couple decades of its existence.

At the beginning of the nineties, the most famous character in Savoie Associée's history entered the scene. That, of course, was the team's general manager of a dozen years, Jacques Tremblay. Tremblay was already forty-five years old when he took over as GM, but he had an incredible grasp of tactics, not to mention the business acumen required for a manager off the pitch as well. His innovative methods began to garner attention as they propelled the team to greater and greater successes. Soon Savoie Associée was the team to beat, and many strong players sought to sign contracts with them. The team's growing reputation drew more and more talent, which then in turn increased their reputation in an upward cycle. After just a few years with Tremblay at the helm, Savoie Associée was widely regarded as the best team in the nation.

When Tremblay retired in 2004, he had no idea that he was less than a decade out from organized league play taking root in Reçueçn, or from the formation of a national team for the first time. Instead, what he and every Savoie Associée fan immediately became painfully aware that his departure marked the end of the team's golden era and the start of their sudden decline. Wiith Tremblay gone, players refused to renew their contracts upon expiration, and the draw of talent from places beyond the greater Chambéry area began to dry up. Within a few years, Savoie Associée was once again a mid-tier team, no longer competing for glory with the likes of the big city teams such as Reçueçn FC and Association Genève, let alone easily outshining them as it had ten or fifteen years ago.

Despite its fall from grace, Savoie Associée remained large in the Reçuecian cultural consciousness. Under Tremblay's management, the club had been so dominant and become such a household name, that even nine years later, it still wielded some level of respect and authority. It was for this reason that the club was one of the "Seven Sisters", the seven founding clubs that together created the Fédération Nationale Reçuecienne de Football. Even after the creation of the Reçuecian Ministry of Sport and the re-organization of the FNRF, those seven teams still maintain a stronger influence over the FNRF than any other clubs in the country, and with the Ministry of Sport endorsing the FNRF as the official governing body for the sport in Reçueçn, that comes with a decent amount of power.

On the other hand, although Savoie Associée has maintained a key role in the FNRF, it has not earned the same respect on sporting merit. During the first year of organized play after the FNRF was founded, thirty-six teams were included in qualification for the LNRF, and those thirty-six teams have ever since constituted the entirety of the sport at the men's professional level in the country. Although some arguably stronger teams were not included in the LNRF, their exclusion relegated them de facto to semi-pro status. The LNRF, as those familiar with it will know, is divided into two tiers, le championnat and le deuxième championnat. Only two clubs among the "Seven Sisters" did not qualify for le championnat, the highest tier. One of those was Stomford 1904 which immediately earned promotion after the first season and has not been relegated since. Stomford even went on to win back-to-back championships in the league's sixth and seventh seasons, something no other club has done (unless you count Reçueçn FC winning both the qualification league and the first official season). The second of the Seven Sisters to be placed in the less prestigious deuxième championnat was, of course, Savoie Associée.

Unlike Stomford, Savoie failed to make up for its weak performance in the qualifying league with immediate and continued domination afterward. Although the club did in fact win le deuxième championnat in its first season and win promotion right off the bat, unlike Stomford, Savoie Associée struggled to perform in the more prestigious championnat. After four seasons in which they never finished above the middle of the table, they faced relegation. A couple seasons later they again won the deuxième championnat title, and followed it up with a third-place finish in le championnat during its eighth season, the club's best-ever result. After a couple attempts at the LBCT, it was exciting for Savoie's fans to see their team try to make it to the Challengers Cup, but they were eliminated in the First Preliminary Round. It was not a good season for the side since in addition to the early IFCF exit, a 15th-place (i.e., second-to-last) finish in le championnat meant they were headed for relegation yet again. But Savoie seemed to refuse to spend very long at all in a particular tier, regardless of which one it was, because the very next season they punched their ticket back to the first tier by just barely scraping into third place. Coming into Season 11, the team will be looking to establish itself strongly in le championnat in hopes of making this most recent promotion a permanent one.

Throughout the LNRF era, no one at Savoie Associée has come close to the level of renown once attained by Jacques Tremblay. While Savoie was trying to fight its way out of le deuxième championnat, Tremblay was coming out of retirement to put together Reçueçn's Baptism of Fire team. Tremblay remained as manager of the équipe nationale for another decade (which due to the inconsistent flow of time in Reçueçn stretched from World Cup 72 all the way to World Cup 87). During all that time he never called up a single Savoie Associée player for the national team. In fact beside Tremblay, no one from the club at all has ever risen to a level that led to consideration for the équipe nationale. Although the team has at times had strong offensive players, their perennial defensive weaknesses have stopped them from ever reclaiming their glory from the nineties.
Current Team
In the present day, as we look ahead to the beginning of Season 11 for le championnat (le deuxième championnat has already begun its season), Savoie is looking at a roster of aging players, many of whom still have several years on their contracts. Two of the players look particularly promising. First, Linus Feulner, whose "soccer common sense", as his coach refers to it, often keeps his team on the rails. His presence of mind has often saved the team from letting things go too far downhill in the midfield, and his relentless drive has also initiated more than his fair share of attacks and goalscoring opportunities. The second player is the team's starting center forward, Auguste Chéreau (no relation of the FC Zimmerich left midfielder Robert of the same last name, who plays for the national team). Chéreau is another player who has the perseverance, determination, and perhaps most importantly, the stamina to create chances, often for his own self when his teammates are not doing the work for him. Fortunately, Chéreau also has the precision and skill to finish well. The twenty-seven year old is one player who could probably find a spot at a stronger club if he were a free agent, but contracts in Reçueçn are often far longer than in many other nations, and he has another six years at Savoie unless the team decides to release him.

That decision would be up to general manager Marc Voyard, whose own contract length has only been described to the media as "conditional". What exactly those conditions are is unclear, since Savoie Associée has seen both its best and worst LNRF seasons under his tenure. Right now, things are looking up for him as he has turned things around for his team after just a single season in the second tier and is now leading a--hopefully stronger and more experienced squad--into a season in the top flight.

The final character in this story worth mentioning is Savoie Associée's representative to the FNRF, Jonathan Avoirpieds, who as rep for a founding team, wields a veto on the governing body's executive board. Avoirpieds has shown himself to be a staunch defender of Savoie Associée, the LNRF, and the FNRF, during the various periods when one or the other of those organizations seemed threatened. The current climate in the Ministry of Sport as well as Reçueçn at large is a convenient one for all of the institutions that Avoirpieds represents, since Reçueçn's recent emergence from a sporting hiatus has engendered a groundwell of goodwill and support for football clubs and organizations around the country. But were that to change, you can be sure that Savoie Associée's FNRF rep will be ready to go to bat for them.

The immediate future for Savoie Associée looks to be full of both opportunity and challenge. A strong deuxième championnat finish and promotion is air under the team's wings right now, but there may be turbulence ahead in the more-hard-fought first tier. Will the coach and a few strong players be able to lead the team to victory, or at least a respectable finish, well out of relegation danger? Only time will tell. (But our guess would be 10th out of 16.)
FNRF Representative: Jonathan Avoirpieds
Manager: Marc Voyard

Starters
#1 Guiscardo Cirillo (GK, 28)
#4 Abbondio Brunelli (LB, 30)
#3 Touénot Mandeville (CB, 29)
#17 Djeferson Leloup (RB, 26)
#22 Antoine Brousseau (LM, 27)
#6 Anderson Belanger (CM, 34)
#8 Linus Feulner (AM, 26)
#2 Adalbrecht Taube (RM, 28)
#11 Maximilien Carbonneau (LW, 26)
#10 Auguste Chéreau (CF, 27)
#14 Abeau Rouanet (RW)
Reserves
#5 Jean-Marc Bescond (LM, 30)
#9 Tom Thompson (SW, 27)
#15 Émilien Boutet (LW, 28)
#16 Alban Grosjean (CB)
#18 Eugène Perreault (LB, 18)
#19 Isaïe Asselineau (LB, 29)
#20 Franck Côté (ST)
#21 Blaise Girard (SW, 19)
#24 Justin Cahun (GK, 25)
#25 Ruben Breiner (SW, 31)
#28 Étienne Gainsbourg (RM)
#29 Abraham Vallotton (RW)

Rosters

Other Teams in Le Championnat
In order by Season 10 placement.

Association Genève
Manager: Jean-Pierre Boulet
Starters
#1 Michael Cooper (GK, 31)
#2 Jean-Charles Nee (LB, 30)
#4 Ryan Lloyd (RB, 32)
#8 Théophile Thériault (RM, 15)
#10 Frank "Franky" Adams (CF, 26)
#11 Alceste Charbonnier (LW, 29)
#13 Van Kubiak (AM)
#15 Klemens Uebelhoer (CB, 31)
#17 Michi Duval (LM, 33)
#22 Freeman Lebo (RW, 33)
#25 Bastien Pomeroy (ST, 27)
Reserves
#3 Adam Ohlendorf (DM, 30)
#5 Adeodato Doto (SW, 28)
#7 Harold Saunders (AM, 34)
#9 Adrian Hasselvander (ST, 30)
#12 Jean-Loup Abbadie (CB)
#14 Caleb Evans (LB)
#16 William Livingstone (AM)
#18 Grégoire Leclair (DM, 35)
#19 Harold "Harry" Cherry (SW, 29)
#20 Osvaldo Ohler (SW)
#21 Maximilian Pfister (RB, 29)
#23 Elmar Weschler (RW, 29)
#24 Lucien Valluy (CF, 25)
#28 Jaidyn Jefferson (LM)

Heldingen 1919
Manager: Marius Hecher
Starters
#1 Jannick Bechtholdt (GK, 38)
#2 Stefan Beckmann (LB, 26)
#8 Ingolf Nowitzki (LM, 29)
#9 Ylljet Amiti (ST, 30)
#10 Theodore Dolloway (AM, 30)
#11 Dominic Cecchi (LW, 27)
#14 Barnabus Mercer (RB)
#17 Helibert Wolf (RW, 27)
#18 Waldemar Weintraub (RM, 30)
#22 Reynaldo Stong (CB, 30)
#29 Jonas Hirtreiter (DM)
Reserves
#3 Carl Wentzel (RM, 25)
#4 Petrus Schilder (RM, 26)
#6 Taylor Dunlap (CM, 29)
#7 Astor Koch (RM, 21)
#13 Étienne Duchamps (LB)
#15 Meino Graf (LW, 18)
#19 Alban Pelletier (CF, 29)
#20 Gregor Grabner (ST)
#21 Aurel Dreyer (GK, 18)
#25 Turstin Mayoh (CB, 29)
#26 Yraid Yassun (CM, 26)
#28 Pierre-Antoine Saint-Yves (RW)

FC Zimmerich
FNRF Representative: Ben Müller
Manager: Nick Seck
Starters
#1 Abia Becken (GK, 30)
#2 Zackothy Di Lallo (CM, 28)
#3 Louis Granville (CB, 26)
#6 Arne Heissler (DM, 30)
#7 Jean-Pierre Kaplan (RM, 30)
#8 Robert Chéreau (LM, 27)
#9 Lamprecht Breitbarth (LW, 26)
#10 Valéry Bossuet (RW, 30)
#17 Sicuro Novara (LB, 30)
#20 Rodolphe Trudeau (SW)
#21 Ly Nasser (CF, 29)
#27 Nathanaël Trouvé (RB)
Reserves
#4 Engelbrecht Schiele (LB, 25)
#5 Soren Ebbesen (RB, 28)
#11 Rudolf Assing (RB, 29)
#12 Thomas Münchberg (CB)
#14 Severo Sicari (LW)
#15 Thomas Cerf (RB, 28)
#16 Georges Rigal (DM)
#18 Rémy Lussier (RM, 26)
#19 Vinzenz Wehner (LM, 29)
#22 Malte Lobe (GK, 29)
#24 Kennith Merriweather (SW, 37)

Écho SC
Manager: Luis Nebe
Starters
#1 Dante Salone (GK, 29)
#2 Davis Savoy (LB, 28)
#3 Guido Guidi (CB, 29)
#4 Guy Robuck (RB, 31)
#5 Dany Malet (SW, 26)
#11 Dastid Murati (LW, 27)
#14 Matthias Delsarte (RW)
#16 Ernest Vernier (LM)
#17 Lambert Suess (DM, 30)
#20 Florentin Jöllenbeck (RM)
#21 Geoffroy Hémery (ST, 28)
Reserves
#6 Charles Gounelle (RB, 27)
#12 Louis Besnard (LM)
#15 Curril Thika (SW, 29)
#18 Jonathan Lazard (AM, 28)
#19 Félix Kléber (RM, 27)
#22 Bastien Gilson (RW, 27)
#23 Daniel Chabot (SW, 18)
#24 Edmund Braune (CF, 27)
#25 Jordan Beaubois (SW, 29)
#26 Constantin Azaïs (LB, 21)
#27 Tanguy Lechop (CB)
#28 Nathan Chastain (RB)

Sportive Annedine
Manager: Jérôme Condui
Starters
#1 Warinfreid Quièvremont (GK, 30)
#2 Parmenio Tomasino (LB, 28)
#3 Arden Kranz (RB, 34)
#5 Égide Leroux (SW, 28)
#6 Ansquetil de Bethencourt (DM, 27)
#7 Gallien Mortimer (RM, 29)
#9 Florent Brunet (ST, 29)
#17 Quentin Bourreau (LW, 30)
#18 Ottmar Huffman (CB, 26)
#19 Kasimir Böcker (LM, 29)
#24 Richard Longchambon (RW, 26)
Reserves
#8 Frank Goff (CM, 28)
#10 Valentino Rais (LB, 30)
#11 Fabio Molitor (RB, 30)
#12 Édouard Boivin (LW)
#14 Eduardo Tavares (RB)
#15 Yannick Janvier (RW, 26)
#16 Gauvain St Pierre (GK)
#20 Sacha Deniel (RM)
#21 Joshua Barr (AM, 32)
#22 Asurdi Balinaga (ST, 28)
#23 Jeffry Heist (DM, 31)
#27 Jean-Yves Gaume (RB)

Renwyll
Manager: Denis Leroux
Starters
#3 Alfons Metz (LB, 30)
#5 Eric Konig (RB, 17)
#9 Edoardo Rocchi (CB, 30)
#10 Pascal Planque (CM, 30)
#11 Leon Stock (LW, 28)
#12 Félicien Brodeur (RM)
#13 Erich Ferber (CF)
#15 Aubert Le Clerc (SW, 39)
#18 Lewis Richfield (LM, 31)
#21 Calanico Di Martino (GK, 30)
#23 Edvard Batterton (RW, 28)
Reserves
#1 Max Winkel (GK, 16)
#6 Christoph Kneller (LB, 29)
#7 Marco Daecher (LM, 18)
#8 Fantino Panicucci (AM, 19)
#14 Taylor Lee (LW)
#16 Nathanaël Cailloux (LW)
#17 Erwin Baggenstoss (AM, 18)
#19 Adalberto Voltolini (ST, 27)
#24 Lexoti Izcara (RW, 26)
#27 Robin Serrano (RW)
#28 Lauge Vinther (LW)
#29 Claude Lagacé (RM)

Ville-sur-Rivière
Manager: Homme Lenom
Starters
#1 Pompeo Pangallo (GK, 30)
#2 Gian Marlow (LB, 32)
#5 Britt Beaston (DM, 35)
#7 Valentine Atwood (RW, 29)
#10 Nico Hattenberger (LW, 30)
#13 Platur Kaleci (RM)
#15 Cyrille Besson (LM, 28)
#17 Friedrich Bronner (ST, 27)
#20 Kyle Lawrence (AM)
#22 Quirino Lucian (CB, 28)
#25 Charles Brugière (RB, 28)
Reserves
#3 Quentin Bethune (LB, 29)
#4 Pretash Hoxha (LB, 27)
#6 Basile Vaugrenard (DM, 28)
#8 Ulpiano Guastella (CM, 29)
#11 Fred Lane (RB, 28)
#12 Natanaël Boutroux (GK)
#14 Amaury Boulle (GK)
#16 Degaré Béranger (RW)
#18 Claudio Prosdocimi (RW, 30)
#19 Yvain Simon (GK, 21)
#23 Melchior Rosenblum (SW, 28)
#26 Berto Corna (RB, 26)
#28 Nazaire Fontaine (LM)

Col-de-Môse
Manager: Michel Montsaint
Starters
#1 Christopher Kirkland (GK, 27)
#3 Sébastien Bougie (SW, 29)
#4 Claude Courtet (CB, 27)
#5 Jayson Compton (LB, 28)
#8 Brenton Krahn (CM, 32)
#13 Diodoro Alleva (RB)
#15 Constantino Andrade (LM, 30)
#16 Lars Glück (LW)
#17 Ursmaro Previti (RM, 35)
#18 Günter Achenbach (RW, 30)
#20 Xavier Abadie (CF)
Reserves
#2 Bernhard Gellner (AM, 32)
#6 Jordyn Myers (DM, 33)
#7 Cédric Hachette (CM, 34)
#9 Maxence Bonnet (CF, 32)
#12 Corradino Casale (LB)
#19 Jordan Beaubois (CF, 26)
#22 Casimiro Castro (GK, 26)
#23 Dylan Beaubois (RM, 30)
#24 Aymeric Barnier (LM, 18)
#25 Tanguy Gérin-Lajoie (CM, 20)
#26 Jean-François Marchand (RM, 21)
#27 Noël Berthelette (SW)

Bonneville Sportif
Manager: Guillaume Delafosse
Starters
#1 Richard Beaumanoir (GK, 27)
#2 Dillon Fry (RB, 27)
#3 Axel Borup (SW, 29)
#4 Archimede Lenzi (LB, 30)
#5 Ghislain Archambault (CB, 33)
#6 Andreas Masur (CM, 31)
#9 Per Tegeler (LW, 30)
#15 Niko Groos (LM, 30)
#19 Jérémy Colbert (CF, 29)
#26 António Do Rosário (RW, 30)
#27 Merle Pharr (RM)
Reserves
#7 Casto Camardo (AM, 29)
#8 Archibald Deahguj (DM, 30)
#10 Valéry Derocles (RB, 29)
#11 Josef Hoffman (CB, 27)
#12 Josué Bourgeois (SW)
#13 Miguel Clements (DM)
#14 Yann Babineaux (LW)
#17 Jordan Sullivan (RM, 32)
#18 Gustave Lacan (ST, 28)
#20 Thibaud Gérald (RW)
#21 Sylvain Bazalgette (LW, 33)
#23 Johann Hofmeister (LB, 30)
#24 Conrad Krause (LM, 29)
#25 Paulin Bernier (LW, 26)
#29 Denis Jacquemin (RB)
#31 Didier Regnard (RM)

Reçueçn FC
FNRF Representative: Bill LaVoyard
Manager: Robby Hincklebacker
Starters
#1 Gerauld Firaut (GK, 31)
#2 Leo Beck (SW, 35)
#3 John Ward (LB, 29)
#5 Jônas de Montchrestien (CB, 28)
#6 Roméo Jacquard (CM, 36)
#7 Jonah Montgomery (RM, 26)
#20 Yves Dufour (RB)
#21 Bertrand Bonnay (LM, 30)
#25 Aaron Niebuhr (RW, 27)
#26 Lukas Kayserling (CB, 27)
#27 Leroy Topham (LW)
Reserves
#4 Lionel Desmarais (RB, 28)
#9 Jean-Yves Barrault (ST, 29)
#10 William Lawrence (AM, 33)
#12 Rosaire Nicolas (GK)
#13 Thomas Büchel (RM)
#14 Hagen Groos (SW)
#15 Enzo Simon (ST, 30)
#16 Yves Devillers (LM)
#17 Nathan Cordonnier (GK, 26)
#18 Alfred Guillory (LB, 29)
#19 Florian Vaugrenard (CB, 28)
#22 Pasqualino Parodi (DM, 30)
#23 Arturo Prosdocimi (DM, 29)
#24 Manuel Sauvageau (RM, 26)

Stomford 1904
Manager: Marlin Vanbuskirk
Starters
#2 Earl Randall (SW, 27)
#3 Damien Jennings (RB, 30)
#4 Ulrich Kaufmann (LB, 20)
#5 Miché Thomas (CB, 27)
#7 Narciso Venturo (LM, 30)
#14 Björn Heilmann (CM)
#18 Wilfried Bauman (RM, 30)
#21 Marc Schöner (LW, 29)
#22 André Courtial (RW, 29)
#23 Poul Milone (GK, 30)
#26 Samuel Rademacher (CF, 29)
Reserves
#6 Norberto Cruz (DM, 28)
#9 Ronald Kingery (RW, 36)
#12 Jâcob Seymour (RM)
#13 Maxime Pierlot (RB)
#15 Murilo Bento (CB, 26)
#16 Jens Bachmeier (LB)
#17 Dirk Trommler (LW, 18)
#19 Björn Mayenburg (RM, 29)
#24 Karlo Mettler (CB, 18)
#25 Norbert Heinecke (CB, 26)
#27 Elias Tugendhat (ST)
#29 Bernardo Nascimbene (CM)

FC Harrim
Manager: Wolfram Voight
Starters
#1 Estienne de Chefderue (GK, 27)
#2 Cameron Richards (RB, 33)
#3 Emanuele Cutrona (CB, 27)
#4 Paulin Bourguignon (LB, 28)
#6 Gaétan Gribelin (SW, 32)
#7 Dale Green (AM, 35)
#8 Bert Häring (LM, 29)
#9 Erwin Tolkien (RM, 28)
#10 Cirillo Vrtilek (RW, 32)
#15 Étienne Cruise (CB, 30)
#18 Matthäus Behrend (LW, 26)
Reserves
#5 Émeric Chappelle (DM, 38)
#12 Frank Jennings (SW)
#13 Richard Rowohlt (CB)
#14 Erro Ainciburo (CM)
#16 Rino Bennardo (ST)
#17 Antonio Albertini (RW, 34)
#19 Meinhard Wahner (LB, 29)
#20 Timothé Dieudonné (LB)
#22 Claudio Prosdocimi (CB, 29)
#24 Roger Rosenberger (GK, 29)
#26 Quirin Voss (RB, 29)
#29 Harvey Macdonald (LW)

Baden Heidelberg
Manager: Oliver Grassl
Starters
#1 Graziano Piacentini (GK, 29)
#2 Alfontso Gabancho (CB, 30)
#3 Levi Braney (LB, 36)
#5 Anatol Fischbein (RB, 30)
#7 Florencio Patman (LM, 30)
#8 Éric Mignard (CF, 27)
#13 Plutarco Rosselli (RM)
#15 Gaby Chastain (LW, 29)
#22 Quentin Gouin (RM, 25)
#26 Sigismund Leitgeb (AM, 29)
#29 Sandro Bierbaum (RW)
Reserves
#11 Enzo Giovannucci (LM, 38)
#12 Alex Bruguière (RB)
#14 Jean Bougie (CB)
#17 Jacob Rodenberg (LM, 26)
#18 Berend Hammerl (RM, 29)
#19 Gaël Garreau (SW, 30)
#20 Michael Palme (GK)
#25 Emerson Stinchcomb (LM, 32)
#27 Arthur Jonke (CB)
#28 Armand Soyer (CB)
#30 Koloman Gehrig (LM)

Genève Bord-de-Lac
Manager: Gaspard Boissieu
Starters
#1 Désiré Mossé (GK, 30)
#2 Olaf Dohna (CB, 27)
#3 Deodato Passante (LB, 30)
#7 Hubert Loupe (RW, 32)
#8 Colby Mcneil (CM, 29)
#11 Diomede Trevisan (LW, 29)
#12 Glenden Terrell (RM)
#16 Charles Bachelot (LM)
#17 Dexter Durchville (ST, 29)
#23 Jean-Yves Chevotet (LM, 30)
#28 Clovis LeBeau (RB)
Reserves
#4 Aubin Chappuis (LB, 27)
#9 Alexandre Lucy (LW, 18)
#10 Félix Gide (AM, 27)
#13 Ovidio Arrighi (SW)
#14 Thomas Marchal (CB)
#15 Maxence Verninac (RB, 28)
#18 Umile Ammirati (DM, 28)
#19 Osmund Bove (CM, 28)
#24 Alban LeBeau (RM, 27)
#25 Jocelyn Bouhier (RW, 27)
#26 Eugène Dupuy (LM, 29)
#27 Vivien Kaplan (RM)

Arly
Manager: Ferdinand Blancmagne
Starters
#1 Ansaldo Dolfi (GK, 33)
#2 Benedikt Bohn (CF, 36)
#3 Torben Holz (LB, 35)
#4 Évrard Bourneuf (LM, 28)
#5 Nicholas Luhman (RB, 29)
#6 Giordano Tivoli (SW, 30)
#7 Ulpiano Cotroneo (DM, 32)
#11 Jason Sandoval (LW, 27)
#12 Gabriel Henderson (RW)
#17 Constantin Pierre (RM, 29)
#18 Jean-Marie Bret (CB, 29)
Reserves
#8 Günter Mommsen (RB, 27)
#9 Adalbrecht Neuner (SW, 29)
#10 Jalen Reeves (AM, 30)
#13 Aymeric Gagne (LM)
#14 Mathias Mossé (RB)
#15 Franz Myrthenbaum (RB, 29)
#16 Adam Senft (LB)
#19 Nils Chasalow (SW, 35)
#20 Christian Gagneux (LB)
#21 Lilian De Villepin (SW, 34)
#22 Rémy Traver (GK, 30)
#23 Fabien Bernard (RB, 29)
#24 Adalger Schechter (CM, 27)
#25 Robert Leclair (LW, 30)

Teams in Le Deuxième Championnat
In order by Season 10 placement.

Tyvania
Manager: Giusto Palermo
Starters
#1 Pelaio Etchegoinberry (GK, 30)
#3 Erhard Bergmann (CB, 29)
#4 Hanns Haerig (LB, 30)
#5 Isaac Chagnon (LM, 30)
#6 Wilmer Normann (RM, 28)
#8 Peter Boesen (AM, 30)
#9 Ottaviano De Capua (ST, 27)
#14 Eginardo Alteri (RW)
#17 Hobert Arledge (DM, 33)
#21 Pankrazio Asuaga (LW, 30)
#24 Berto Corna (RB, 30)
Reserves
#2 Adrione Nicolo (LB, 31)
#7 Gautier Lestrange (LW, 30)
#10 Romeo Sagese (LW, 19)
#12 Anatol Schult (CM)
#15 Martim Aguiar (LW, 27)
#16 Piermarco Mazzarella (RM)
#18 Germano Buffon (RM, 18)
#19 Dacio Scolaro (RB, 28)
#23 Amadeo Minervino (RW, 23)
#26 Rory Huber (RM, 35)
#29 Mauro Stilo (LM)
#31 Achille Caiazzo (LW)

Hôtel Chapelle-Pré
Manager: Gautier Duval
Starters
#1 Biagio Solazzo (GK, 29)
#2 Bernard Wellington (SW, 29)
#3 Tobie Beauvau (CB, 34)
#5 Roméo Demaret (CM, 37)
#6 Aleandro Scarlata (LB, 33)
#8 David Hughes (LM, 36)
#11 Wittie Zaleznik (LW, 31)
#17 Jean-Charles Lortie (CF, 27)
#19 Lilian Escoffier (RM, 27)
#22 Christian Goethe (RB, 28)
#29 Boniface Bellegarde (RW)
Reserves
#4 Denis Allaire (SW, 22)
#7 Gaby Mace (LB, 29)
#9 Marlon Daugherty (LB, 29)
#10 Erhard Siemon (LM, 26)
#12 Kyle Cooley (LW)
#13 Vincent Sardou (LM)
#14 Bledaret Boja (DM)
#21 Arminio Tarro (RW, 35)
#23 Colin Lazard (SW, 26)
#24 Jérôme Chevalier (SW, 32)
#25 Édouard Besnard (RM, 27)
#26 Robin Oldenberg (LM, 28)

FC Hanting
Manager: Burt Renalds
Starters
#1 Mike Rehder (GK, 29)
#2 Élisée Naudé (SW, 30)
#4 Emanuel Marcaidagoitia (RB, 29)
#5 Égide Bassot (DM, 29)
#9 Ataleo Zero (RW, 27)
#12 Harold Erickson (LB)
#18 Jo Gerver (CB, 29)
#20 Elmo Andreas (LM)
#23 Gebhard Reyer (RM, 27)
#24 Ferdinando Condello (LW, 29)
#26 Leonhard Borchard (ST, 29)
Reserves
#7 Mathis Küchler (SW, 30)
#8 Paulin Fétique (SW, 30)
#10 Finn Mcintosh (CF, 28)
#11 Filberto Kholyavenko (DM, 27)
#13 Oskar Arneth (LB)
#14 Karo Beibidea (LM)
#16 Coreno Guerra (SW)
#17 Hannes Abraham (LB, 30)
#19 Mathias Messerli (CB, 28)
#21 Carl Mandel (GK, 27)
#22 Deodato Cerroni (RM, 26)
#25 Gernot Spitznagel (LW, 27)

Actwell
Manager: Hyron LeBouffe
Starters
#1 Damien Bocuse (GK, 28)
#4 Elmer McPherson (RB, 29)
#5 Mercer Goguen (AM, 18)
#7 Ethan Marsh (RW, 30)
#9 Mason Sharp (CF, 30)
#11 Gianpaolo Serio (LW, 34)
#13 Benoît Beaufort (LB)
#16 Brandon Harper (RM)
#18 Dylan Vigouroux (CB, 28)
#19 Léon Bélanger (LM, 30)
#21 Hugues Berger (CF, 27)
Reserves
#2 Omer Barthet (LB, 30)
#3 Oscar Best (LB, 27)
#8 Ellis Russell (DM, 32)
#10 Antonia Desilva (AM, 31)
#14 Winoc Bureau (LM)
#15 Paul Heintze (RB, 28)
#17 Simon Roux (RM, 30)
#20 Josselin Victor (RM)
#22 Engelbert Boesch (LW, 28)
#23 Samuel Gailey (LM, 28)
#24 Léonard Gauthier (RW, 30)
#26 Serge Caron (CF, 29)

Itrino
Manager: Adone Corio
Starters
#2 Algas Hajdaraga (CB, 30)
#4 Hartmut Nostitz (RB, 30)
#5 Salim Condenzio (DM, 29)
#11 Blaine Porter (LW, 29)
#12 Frontiniano Arata (GK)
#17 Gioberto Taravella (RW, 30)
#18 Anselm Pellegrino (LM, 35)
#19 Gervais Jacquemin (ST, 30)
#25 Gillo Scianna (LB, 29)
#27 Hans Jonke (RM)
#31 Garimberto Mastronardi (AM)
Reserves
#6 Hector Bullion (CM, 27)
#10 Aristotele Vitrano (CF, 31)
#13 Adolfo Pizzimenti (SW)
#15 Viviano Vars (SW, 27)
#16 Gonerio Alu (CB)
#20 Agazio Castro (RB)
#21 Gérôme Lozé (LW, 28)
#22 Matroniano Nelli (RM, 30)
#23 Bruno Chapuis (GK, 29)
#24 Gérald Vandame (RW, 30)
#26 Carmine Di Nardo (CF, 26)
#28 Ulpiano Carleo (ST)
#29 Eraldo Del Negro (CM)
#32 Mattia Zagami (DM)

FC Hoping
Manager: Jan Kruspe
Starters
#3 Frederik Pihl (CB, 30)
#6 Aguinaldo Silvestre (RM, 29)
#7 Gerd Bormann (RW, 29)
#8 Gedeone Mion (LB, 27)
#10 Andrew Mcginn (CF, 31)
#13 Bruno Gouin (CM)
#14 Renaud Levasseur (GK)
#18 Justin Sylvestre (LW, 28)
#20 Abeau Larousse (SW)
#21 Paolo Pierini (RB, 28)
#24 Amaranto Bellissimo (LM, 32)
Reserves
#2 Didier Charest (LB, 15)
#5 Fernand Chuquet (CM, 18)
#9 Fabien Toutain (AM, 28)
#11 Armand Périer (LW, 18)
#12 Fraunçouès Osmont (GK)
#15 Patrice Deslys (CF, 18)
#16 Wyatt Monrency (RW)
#17 Gaëtan Dupuy (RW, 30)
#19 Sumner Perreault (LW, 16)
#25 René Laprise (ST, 17)
#26 Antero Venezio (LM, 26)
#27 Roger Carrell (CM)

ASC Renting
Manager: Gotthard Leiner
Starters
#5 Kasden Tzelili (GK, 26)
#6 Enzo Gounelle (LB, 30)
#8 Kunz Brandler (LM, 30)
#10 Sébastien Houle (CF, 16)
#11 Côme Carrel (LW, 33)
#19 Germain Duchamp (CB, 26)
#22 Ludo Leblanc (CM, 26)
#23 Étienne Delacroix (RM, 29)
#24 Noa Sault (RW, 26)
#26 Léonard Bureau (AM, 28)
#27 Bastien Cloutier (RB)
Reserves
#1 Edgar Friedrich (GK, 29)
#2 Eberardo Cifarelli (GK, 39)
#4 Ludovic Boutet (SW, 24)
#7 Norbert Affré (CB, 27)
#12 Lambert Arsenault (DM)
#14 Gundulf Benoist (RM)
#15 Mathis Crevier (LM, 33)
#16 Kay Huppert (SW)
#17 Jean Geffroy (RB, 27)
#21 Berndt Rheingold (CM, 26)
#25 Nicodème Segal (DM, 30)

Assalto Alpino
Manager: Bill Runkin
Assistant Manager: Ettore Sisti
Starters
#1 Gaspare Castiglia (GK, 38)
#2 Petronio Mazzanti (LB, 17)
#8 Maynard Hebron (RM, 32)
#14 Élisée Calvet (LM)
#16 Marco Sacco (CB)
#17 Mauro Terranova (RB, 29)
#19 Renaud Demaret (ST, 28)
#22 Gottlob Blau (ST, 25)
#23 Giraldo Rana (RW, 29)
#27 Teofilo Corrà (LW)
#29 Tiziano Romagna (CM)
Reserves
#3 Gabriel Mitchell (CB, 29)
#4 Vulpiano Innaconne (RM, 19)
#9 Lieto Capriglione (ST, 18)
#11 Corrado Scenna (SW, 27)
#15 Claude Gaudin (RM, 34)
#18 Porthos Poincaré (DM, 28)
#20 Sabino Gronchi (LM)
#21 Clemente Gabrielli (LW, 28)
#24 Clair Perrault (CF, 27)
#26 Giacinto Bicchieri (RW, 29)
#28 Bastien Battier (CM)
#31 Lando Brivio (SW)

FC Hamwich 89
Manager: Anton Leitner
Starters
#1 Dagny Bernardo (GK, 34)
#3 Blake Kring (CB, 28)
#10 Eckehard Rommel (RB, 29)
#13 Driton Dervishi (RW)
#15 Édouard Guillaume (SW, 27)
#19 Gregor Bäumler (LM, 30)
#20 Lars Glück (RM)
#21 Oscar Quaschny (LW, 28)
#22 Norbert Schneiderman (ST, 30)
#27 Jonathan Bechtold (LB)
#31 August Bäcker (CM)
Reserves
#2 Wolfgang Ehlers (AM, 24)
#4 Udo Stockhausen (DM, 25)
#9 Marco Kluckhohn (RW, 19)
#12 Jeremias Schickendantz (GK)
#14 Armand Vannier (SW)
#23 Tobias Goedde (CF, 26)
#24 Bert Wallner (RW, 29)
#26 Timo Ehrenbaum (SW, 29)
#28 Eckhard Josten (RB)
#29 Friedhold Fromm (LB)
#30 Günter Achenbach (LM)

Sportclub St. Karl
Manager: Edward Knight
Starters
#1 Timo Kaulbach (GK, 28)
#2 Maxence Spanghero (SW, 30)
#5 Elliott Knobloch (LB, 27)
#6 Apollo Goff (LM, 36)
#10 Selig Habbal (CF, 33)
#12 Felix Baumeister (AM)
#19 Karl Arbeit (CB, 30)
#20 Germain Magnier (RB)
#21 Brandon Hamilton (LW, 30)
#22 Hanspeter Baumgärtner (RM, 30)
#23 Jean-Noël LeBeau (RW, 30)
Reserves
#3 Fabio Hiltbrand (ST, 18)
#4 Matthieu Portier (CB, 28)
#7 Louis Duval (LM, 27)
#9 Oliver Wäch (SW, 17)
#14 Jürgen Herz (LB)
#15 Andreas Zimmer (RM, 18)
#16 Torsten Adler (LW)
#17 Jonas Brauer (CF, 19)
#18 Dirk Kluge (CM, 20)
#24 Hannes Kohler (CF, 32)
#25 Moore Guimond (RW, 18)
#26 Diocleziano Polidoro (GK, 29)

Cinizio
Manager: Fabio Iorio
Starters
#1 Meinrad Große (GK, 29)
#2 Jean-Guy Jégou (CB, 31)
#3 Burkhard Korsch (LB, 32)
#4 Bruno Dubos (RB, 30)
#6 Gaspare D'Antona (LM, 29)
#8 Noé Batteux (RM, 39)
#9 Bruno Saldanha (ST, 30)
#13 Elvino Buratti (RW)
#16 Vodingo Balboni (LW)
#24 Costanzo Turati (DM, 30)
#26 Basilio Sordi (CF, 29)
Reserves
#5 Giosuele De Spirito (RB, 18)
#10 Pippo Salvati (ST, 18)
#12 Clemente Commisso (CF)
#14 Durante Nicodemo (RW)
#17 Erminio Abategiovanni (SW, 27)
#18 Aurélien Chausson (SW, 27)
#19 Giorgio Battista (LW, 17)
#20 Caino Carrara (LB)
#21 Narseo De Renzo (CB, 30)
#22 Didimo Tesoriero (RB, 30)
#25 Lauriano Mastrandrea (ST, 29)
#28 Luca Santell (CF)

Ramton
Manager: Pierre Bonnot
Starters
#1 Giulio Pavlon (GK, 32)
#2 Dwight Peck (SW, 28)
#3 Jacob Paulsen (LB, 27)
#4 Paul Harding (CB, 30)
#5 Bertrand Berger (RB, 31)
#6 Alphonse Cochet (CM, 29)
#9 Jean-Christophe Lemoine (RW, 28)
#12 Raymond Caron (RM)
#18 Arne Franz (LM, 32)
#22 Reinhold Madelung (LW, 30)
#24 Ulrich Winkler (CF, 29)
Reserves
#14 Ernestin Müllhaupt (LB)
#16 Jean Jauffret (LB)
#19 Klemens Winkelhock (SW, 29)
#20 Othmar Hofmann (LM)
#21 Kunz Fellgiebel (RM, 29)
#23 Denis Scharff (LB, 29)
#25 Nicolas Koehler (ST, 29)
#26 Benedict Breuer (CF, 29)
#27 Jean-Joël Leblanc (RW)
#28 Jean-Loup Sylvestre (RW)
#29 Stephen Medina (DM)
#32 Nicola Weyrauch (CM)

Boruncia
Manager: Henny Muntz
Starters
#1 Baldur Tarr (GK, 36)
#3 Cullen Salant (CB, 35)
#5 Chi Drone (RW, 34)
#8 Steen Hjort (RM, 29)
#10 Wenzel Hettinger (LW, 36)
#14 Enrico Nizzola (LB)
#15 Jean-Marie Blondeau (SW, 30)
#16 Lif Gjoni (LM)
#18 Henri Lyon (AM, 28)
#26 Adalwin Sachs (RB, 27)
#29 Kevin Assing (ST)
Reserves
#9 Jules Hilfiker (CF, 18)
#11 Tell Böhlen (LW, 19)
#12 Ulrich Geller (CB)
#17 Christian Himmelblau (DM, 28)
#19 Clément Leclercq (RM, 26)
#20 Reto Spörri (ST)
#21 Lorenz Kornblum (GK, 27)
#23 Robin Scheck (SW, 30)
#24 Olaf Körver (SW, 27)
#25 Jacob Katzmann (LB, 30)
#27 Baudouin Lachance (CB)
#28 Stéphane Oliver (CF)

Sportverein Hesse
Manager: Albert Mengelberg
Starters
#2 Évrard Alarie (CB, 30)
#3 Euseo Volino (LB, 26)
#5 Osbert Duval (DM, 31)
#9 Colin Boffrand (CF, 26)
#11 Niko Strobel (LM, 29)
#12 Fabien Jacquinot (GK)
#15 Phillip Kuchler (SW, 30)
#16 Pascal Féret (RB)
#18 Achim Lotz (RM, 29)
#21 Stanislaus Seydel (LW, 34)
#25 Ägid Baum (RW, 29)
Reserves
#1 Angelo Paasche (GK, 30)
#4 Vilfredo Li Volsi (RB, 30)
#6 Priamo Pellegrino (CM, 32)
#8 Adalwin Höfle (CB, 29)
#13 Garrott Ferraro (LB)
#14 Georges Sardou (CB)
#17 Ignace Rémy (RB, 29)
#19 Engelbert Frank (CB, 30)
#20 Stanislaus Pracht (LW)
#22 Fergus Edison (SW, 30)
#24 Maximilian Schönherr (RW, 28)
#26 Serge Chappelle (DM, 30)

Slynwell
Manager: Hugo Drewes
Starters
#1 Leroy Howe (GK, 31)
#2 Engelbrecht Panzer (RB, 35)
#3 Roman Bambach (CB, 29)
#4 Bastiano Franchi (LB, 33)
#6 Ecclesio Cassone (RM, 34)
#7 Boniface Boudon (LM, 27)
#8 Manuel Gérin-Lajoie (RW, 29)
#11 Lucrèce Montgomery (LW, 29)
#20 Koloman Ott (CM)
#21 Hans-Günther Jung (AM, 29)
#25 Marc-Antoine Marchal (CF, 29)
Reserves
#10 Luca Bianculli (GK, 28)
#12 Denis Berger (GK)
#14 Engel Riese (RM)
#15 Gwer Rufer (GK, 22)
#16 Florianus Wissing (CF)
#17 Gotthard Walther (LM, 30)
#18 Austin Glover (RW, 29)
#19 Frankie Spiridigliozzi (RW, 30)
#22 Erdmann Graf (RM, 29)
#23 Harald Schuler (LW, 26)
#24 Norbert Beaux (LW, 26)
#26 Wieland Kunz (CF, 28)

Canton-Ouest
Manager: Drake Kicks
Starters
#1 Adalardo Pozza (GK, 34)
#2 Till Kesselman (LB, 36)
#3 Remy Rossignol (SW, 29)
#4 Sebastian Orndorff (CB, 27)
#9 Remy Jacquemin (ST, 27)
#11 Gregorius Hughson (LW, 29)
#20 Lucas Pascal (RB)
#24 Tristan Pomeroy (LM, 29)
#25 Achille Caiazzo (AM, 29)
#26 Corradino Casale (RM, 29)
#27 Romuald Bruguière (RW)
Reserves
#5 Jonathan Craig (RM, 30)
#6 Mathieu Jeannin (LM, 26)
#7 Tonni Bang (RW, 29)
#10 Jean-Claude Cochet (RW, 18)
#12 Régis Beaux (GK)
#13 Landon Simon (SW)
#16 Théo Chausson (LB)
#21 Veit Aigner (LW, 31)
#22 Reuben Shaw (LW, 30)
#28 Mauro Stilo (DM)
#29 Gaylord Portier (RW)
#30 Luc Rigal (GK)

Canting-Aexwell
Manager: Joël Boffrand
Starters
#1 Valéry Grinda (GK, 29)
#2 Timóteo Tomás (LB, 30)
#4 Baldassarre Pase (CB, 29)
#6 Danial Edison (RB, 27)
#8 Bernard Beaulne (RM, 30)
#9 Benjamin Couvreur (ST, 30)
#11 Raniero Malfitano (LW, 28)
#14 Bruno Simon (SW)
#17 Clément Granet (LM, 30)
#19 Tancrède Mortimer (RW, 29)
#21 Olaf Morgentaler (CM, 29)
Reserves
#5 Ildefonso Stagno (RB, 30)
#7 Adolphe Geffroy (ST, 26)
#10 Eckardt Haushofer (CF, 30)
#13 Raphaël Geffroy (CB)
#15 Edgar Freundlich (LB, 30)
#16 Aymeric Mignard (RB)
#18 Tristan Delannoy (AM, 20)
#20 Francis Jacquier (LM)
#22 Jean-Charles Bourque (RM, 28)
#24 Eduard Gerster (AM, 27)
#25 Jean Auger (LW, 26)
#26 Ludovic Boudreaux (GK, 26)

Lampadaires Associés
Manager: Jean-Pascal Arceneaux
Starters
#1 Cédric Laframboise (GK, 32)
#2 Félix Couturier (CB, 35)
#3 Ambrogio Badolato (RB, 36)
#5 Maurice Jaubert (LB, 27)
#9 Igino Leccese (LM, 26)
#11 Igor Chevotet (CF, 29)
#13 Igon Garaiburu (RM)
#21 Hunter Vance (LW, 29)
#22 Jean-Baptiste Brochard (RW, 33)
#25 Louie Green (SW, 27)
#26 Hector Crépin (CM, 30)
Reserves
#6 Dominique Brunet (CB, 29)
#7 Lionel Dior (RM, 27)
#8 Vincent Blanc (RW, 29)
#10 Dieudonné Mesala (ST, 18)
#12 Edouard Veil (GK)
#15 Torben Brestrich (CB, 29)
#16 Kévin Robillard (ST)
#17 Martial Noir (CF, 27)
#18 Christian Baume (CF, 28)
#19 Brice Chauveau (AM, 20)
#20 Valentin Leblanc (CM)
#27 Siegmund Käutner (SW)

Les Raptors
Manager: Frank Winsome
Starters
#1 Lars Riemenschneider (GK, 28)
#2 Jonathan Leblond (SW, 30)
#4 Garrett Burton (RB, 27)
#5 Jordan Cartier (LB, 29)
#9 Kai Jespersen (ST, 27)
#10 Gerwald Brandis (CM, 31)
#11 Aaron Chapuis (LW, 32)
#16 Ignace Crozier (RM)
#19 Gustave Devillers (CB, 28)
#27 Edmond Léger (RW)
#28 Sarle de Vere (LM)
Reserves
#3 Julien Valluy (AM, 26)
#6 Julius Hector (DM, 27)
#8 Matthew Bowers (AM, 30)
#12 Rasiphe Caillot (DM)
#18 Ludovic Courbis (LB, 25)
#20 Alviero Anello (AM)
#21 Remy Soyer (RB, 25)
#22 Christopher Subercaseaux (LM, 29)
#23 Pons Lesauvage (RM, 28)
#24 Cédric Aubert (LW, 26)
#25 Nathan Crevier (CF, 29)
#26 Shane Parkin (AM, 29)

Scavatori di Pozzi
Manager: Gilles Archer
Assistant Manager: Elogio Tuscano
Starters
#1 Bernhart Herbig (GK, 27)
#2 Emmanuel Houdin (DM, 30)
#3 Anselmo Calabrese (LB, 29)
#4 Sostene Baldassari (CB, 30)
#5 Fausto Alderisi (RB, 30)
#6 Giampaolo Altamura (AM, 27)
#8 Beniamino Rizzo (RW, 29)
#10 Gervasio Nannini (LM, 29)
#20 Hubert Quint (CF)
#21 Jackson Bristol (LW, 30)
#28 Zackothy Allum (RM)
Reserves
#7 Siricio Palleschi (ST, 28)
#9 Renzo Cremona (CF, 29)
#11 Verecondo Roso (LW, 24)
#12 Isembart Grouchet (CB)
#13 Joël Berengar (RB)
#14 Santino Lettiere (CM)
#15 Icaro Santarsiero (RW, 26)
#16 Ivan Michelsen (LM)
#17 Natanaele Agnelli (GK, 27)
#18 Mennone Di Fiore (RM, 27)
#19 Isaiah Weeks (LW, 38)
#22 Iñizio Hurzurigarai (SW, 29)

Preseason
Deuxième Championnat Matchdays 1-8

Standings After Matchday Eight

# Team                      Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Boruncia                   8    5   3   0    20   12   +8    18
 2 Itrino                     8    4   3   1    19   10   +9    15
 3 Canton-Ouest               8    4   3   1    15    9   +6    15
 4 Assalto Alpino             8    4   2   2    24   17   +7    14
 5 Sportverein Hesse          8    4   1   3    19   14   +5    13
 6 Cinizio                    8    4   1   3    20   16   +4    13
 7 Tyvania                    8    3   4   1    14   10   +4    13
 8 FC Hoping                  8    4   1   3    24   23   +1    13
 9 Actwell                    8    4   1   3    14   13   +1    13
10 FC Hamwich 89              8    3   3   2    20   18   +2    12
11 FC Hanting                 8    3   2   3    17   14   +3    11
12 Ramton                     8    3   1   4    16   15   +1    10
13 ASC Renting                8    2   4   2    13   16   −3    10
14 Les Raptors                8    2   3   3    11   13   −2     9
15 Sportclub St. Karl         8    2   2   4    16   17   −1     8
16 Scavatori di Pozzi         8    2   2   4     7   17  −10     8
17 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré         8    2   1   5    18   22   −4     7
18 Lampadaires Associés       8    2   1   5    18   28  −10     7
19 Slynwell                   8    1   3   4    11   23  −12     6
20 Canting-Aexwell            8    0   3   5    13   22   −9     3

Le championnat is finally about to kick off, but after eight weeks of play, le deuxième championnat is already off to a strong start. Things are still actually incredibly tight, if you ignore the fact that Boruncia are an entire game up on the rest of the league, since behind them, ten teams are within 3 points of second place. Boruncia has earned its place up front as the only undefeated team. At the opposite end of the table, Hôtel Chapelle-Pré, hoping for a quick return to le championnat after relegation last season, must be furious with themselves for only having seven points so far. Just in front of them in sixteenth place, meanwhile, Scavatori di Pozzi must think it's a miracle that they've only lost half their games so far. The club is so much weaker than every other team in the LNRF that they usually expect to be dead last every season, so when the chance comes along to put four (4!) whole teams below them on the table, they won't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Of course, the star player so far in le deuxième championnat is once again Maynard Hebron, the only player on the national squad currently playing for a second-tier team. Hebron's devotion to his club, Assalto Alpino, has led to him turning down offers from both stronger and wealthier teams. When Hebron is not volunteering at youth soccer programs or doing community outreach, he is busy planning how to get Assalto to the top of the standings. Their start this season has been much stronger than they would have expected, with a particularly impressive performance on matchday two when, with help from a Hebron goal just after half-time, they drew against Tyvania. Typically Assalto Alpino doesn't do much better than about 16th place in le deuxième championnat with the exception being last season when they came in eighth. The fact that they're currently fourth is something their fans are clinging to, while Hebron and his manager Bill Runkin try to figure out how to make it last.

by **Recuecn** » Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:51 am

LNRF Season Eleven Part 1

Le Deuxième Championnat

Well, about halfway through the deuxième championnat season, and Scavatori di Pozzi is back at the bottom, unsurprisingly. Boruncia is no longer leading the league, but even in ninth place they are only two games out of first place, and a whopping six teams are still within a single win of the top. It's Itrino that is currently holding the spot--the club would be happy to get back up to le championnat after two cycles, but at this point in the season, who knows what might happen. Still, it's a good sign, and FC Hanting, who were dead last in the top tier last season, must also be happy to currently be in a promotion spot. Canton-Ouest must be even happier, since they've never done this well before, but it is at the expense of teams like Tyvania and Hôtel Chapelle-Pré, who both probably wish they were a bit closer to the top of the table.

.                           Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Itrino                    18    9   6   3    36   26  +10    33
 2 FC Hanting                18    9   5   4    37   26  +11    32
 3 Canton-Ouest              18    9   5   4    34   24  +10    32
 4 Tyvania                   18    8   7   3    28   19   +9    31
 5 FC Hamwich 89             18    8   6   4    36   31   +5    30
 6 Actwell                   18    9   3   6    34   30   +4    30
 7 Assalto Alpino            18    8   4   6    46   37   +9    28
 8 Cinizio                   18    8   4   6    38   35   +3    28
 9 Boruncia                  18    7   6   5    37   33   +4    27
10 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré        18    8   2   8    40   38   +2    26
11 ASC Renting               18    6   8   4    30   30    0    26
12 Les Raptors               18    7   4   7    29   30   −1    25
13 Sportclub St. Karl        18    6   6   6    36   35   +1    24
14 Sportverein Hesse         18    7   1  10    30   33   −3    22
15 Ramton                    18    5   4   9    30   35   −5    19
16 Canting-Aexwell           18    4   6   8    32   36   −4    18
17 FC Hoping                 18    5   3  10    46   52   −6    18
18 Slynwell                  18    3   7   8    23   39  −16    16
19 Lampadaires Associés      18    4   3  11    46   61  −15    15
20 Scavatori di Pozzi        18    3   4  11    21   39  −18    13

Le Championnat

Team Highlight: Savoie Associée
As a reminder, we're following the progress of Savoie Associée in particular detail this season, and boy do they get off to an exciting start against Arly in a game with six goals all told. Maximilien Carbonneau is the first to score for the team this season, followed shortly by Auguste Chéreau and Adalbrecht Taube. Unfortunately, some sloppy defending means that despite three early goals, the side can't find the win. Coach Voyard tries to put an optimistic spin on things during his post-game conference, but truth is, if the club is going to meet their goals this season, they'll need things to be a bit more ship-shape going forward. It's evident from the look in Voyard's eyes though that he is worried that this first game will be a picture of the season as a whole.

A single goal from Linus Feulner is enough to tide Associée over for ninety minutes against Baden Heidelberg, and suddenly it's not looking like such a bad start to the season. It's maybe only the second matchday, but no one has more than four points yet, so Savoie is in good company. Renwyll's six-three drubbing of FC Zimmerich comes as a shock, but boy was it exciting to watch, and everyone's talking about it.

A second win--this one against FC Harrim and much more convincing than last week's--makes this a good start to the season. Touénot Mandeville has been quite solid at center-back the last couple games, enough so that he can probably take credit for turning the defense around after their unimpressive first game. Voyard has been drilling the squad frantically; it feels like he can't quite identify what the core piece is that is making things either work or not work, and he's searching desperately for it. In the meantime he's gotten lucky enough so it works out. Elsewhere, Association Genève is raising eyebrows after losing its first three games--Geneva fans are in shambles, coping and trying to figure out how a comeback is possible.

Savoie Associée's schadenfreude jinxed them, apparently: this week they played Association Genève and Genève took the opportunity to earn its first points of the season. Savoie will be happy even with the draw, since on paper, Genève is the stronger team, and by far, but its performances so far this season have all been lackluster and Savoie Associée was definitely hoping for an upset. The latter, despite missing out on another win, are still in second place for now, while the former is still last, but the contrast only serves to make the draw sting a bit more.

A draw for Savoie against Écho SC is probably good news; Écho is a quite strong team. Tragedy strikes, however, and Feulner goes off in the 48th minute after a collision, clutching his hamstring in a way that bodes ill. The team rallies in his absence to score a goal and draw even, but Voyard's choice to put on Franck Côté, a striker, when his attacking midfielder comes off the pitch injured, betrays the lack of depth on the Savoie Associée bench. Voyard simply doesn't have another dedicated attacking midfielder to use.

A one-nothing loss to Col-de-Môse ends the brief fairytale of an undefeated streak that Savoie was just beginning to get started, and unceremoniously dumps the Chambéry side in the middle of the table. Feulner's absence is clearly felt as the Savoie midfield struggles to gel without him. The silver lining is that Feulner's doctors have said he should be able to play again "soon". We'll see when that is. Meanwhile, Ville-sur-Rivière is now the only team that hasn't lost a game yet, and their reward is a spot at the top of the league.

After a couple weeks without Feulner, Voyard seems to have jerry-rigged some kind of system in the midfield that is at least helping the team get by. There have been a few different combinations: the manager has tried out several of his reserve players, including Jean-Marc Bescond, Étienne Gainsbourg, and even Alban Grosjean, who is much more comfortable as a fullback. It seems that without Feulner, the entire formation is different, since no one else slots into quite the same position that he did.

The new system clearly has its faults. The original 3-4-3 was more able to transition back to a defensive posture, whereas the 3-3-4 that Voyard opted for this week (with Côté up front in the middle) has too much of a disconnect between the back line and the strikers. The defenders feeling cut off from the rest of the team meant a one-nil loss to Heldingen 1919 this week, to savoie Associée's disappointment. Coming into the season the team might not have hoped for a better results against a team as strong as Heldingen, but with the strong start they've had to the season, their confidence has grown, even if things are a bit shaken up with the Feulner gone. Fortunately he's expected back next week.

Feulner is back! He seems a little slower than before, but his tactical vision more than makes up for it, and he played with a passion that showed how much he'd missed the game during the month he'd been an invalid. A through ball of his set up Abeau Rouanet for a plain-old gorgeous goal from 20 yards out this week against Bonneville Sportif. Chéreau also scores in the 70th minute just before Voyard sees that Feulner is getting tired and takes him off. Within moments, his replacement, Étienne Gainsbourg scores. Guiscardo Cirillo lets two in but with three of their own, it's enough for another win!

Four-to-two against Ville-sur-Rivière! Savoie Associée hand the current league leaders their first loss of the season in a commanding style. The month of experimentation in Feulner's absence has paid off, because Voyard makes some strategic changes just before the game and goes for a strong attack right off the jump. It pays off and Savoie scores four whole goals. With the first third of the season drawing to a close, things are looking good for Savoie Associée. Voyard had envisioned a mid or upper-middle spot in the league table, and that right now is seeming far more achieveable than anyone on the team had hoped.

The real shocker, for anyone looking at the table after Matchday 10, is that Association Genève and FC Zimmerich are both still in the relegation zone with Arly. Arly had missed out on promotion for two seasons in a row before finally earning promotion during Season 10, and is fighting desperately to stay up. That perhaps give you an idea of their expected performance. But Genève and Zimmerich are two of the most respected, strongest teams in the LNRF, and their performance so far has been abyssmal. Remember, Association Genève won le championnat just last season. Meanwhile, their rivals, Reçueçn FC, are doing just fine, currently in second place. And of course, Ville-sur-Rivière is still in first, and will be fighting to stay there as we move into the second third of the season.

.                         Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Ville-sur-Rivière       10    7   2   1    21   15   +6    23
 2 Reçueçn FC              10    6   2   2     9    5   +4    20
 3 FC Harrim               10    6   0   4    13   13    0    18
 4 Stomford 1904           10    5   2   3    17   12   +5    17
 5 Sportive Annedine       10    5   2   3    18   15   +3    17
 6 Heldingen 1919          10    5   2   3    11    9   +2    17
 7 Savoie Associée         10    4   4   2    19   15   +4    16
 8 Bonneville Sportif      10    4   1   5    20   18   +2    13
 9 Baden Heidelberg        10    4   1   5     6    7   −1    13
10 Renwyll                 10    3   3   4    20   19   +1    12
11 Col-de-Môse             10    4   0   6    14   15   −1    12
12 Genève Bord-de-Lac      10    2   4   4    19   16   +3    10
13 Écho SC                 10    2   4   4     8   13   −5    10
14 FC Zimmerich            10    2   3   5    18   24   −6     9
15 Association Genève      10    2   2   6    22   27   −5     8
16 Arly                    10    2   2   6    12   24  −12     8

by **Recuecn** » Fri Jan 26, 2024 6:08 am

LNRF Season Eleven Part 2

Le Deuxième Championnat

Actwell and Itrino have both launched fierce mid-season campaigns, neither side losing more than two games in the last ten weeks. They've been rewarded with spots at the top of the league table. They've also managed to finally pull ahead of the crowd a bit, since it was still a much tighter race last time we checked in. FC Hanting and FC Hamwich 89 are dueling for the last promotion spot, with Boruncia, Canton-Ouest, and ASC Renting all in pursuit. Assalto Alpino, who started their season off very well, have unfortunately fallen out of the chase and are now down in eleventh place. The big cutoff in the table is between 7th-place ASC Renting and 8th-place Sportclub St. Karl, who despite being net to each other in the standings, are separated by seven points. ASC is only seven points out of first place, and Slynwell and Scavatori di Pozzi are the only two teams more than seven points behind St. Karl, so the league is very clearly divided into the haves and the have-nots.

.                           Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Itrino                    28   15   8   5    49   37  +12    53
 2 Actwell                   28   15   5   8    58   50   +8    50
 3 FC Hanting                28   13   9   6    51   36  +15    48
 4 FC Hamwich 89             28   13   9   6    48   39   +9    48
 5 Boruncia                  28   13   8   7    63   54   +9    47
 6 Canton-Ouest              28   13   7   8    64   52  +12    46
 7 ASC Renting               28   12  10   6    51   45   +6    46
 8 Sportclub St. Karl        28   10   9   9    59   56   +3    39
 9 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré        28   12   2  14    59   61   −2    38
10 Tyvania                   28    9  10   9    37   35   +2    37
11 Assalto Alpino            28   10   6  12    66   64   +2    36
12 Ramton                    28    9   8  11    53   53    0    35
13 Cinizio                   28    9   8  11    52   56   −4    35
14 Les Raptors               28   10   5  13    44   51   −7    35
15 FC Hoping                 28   10   4  14    67   70   −3    34
16 Canting-Aexwell           28    9   7  12    51   54   −3    34
17 Lampadaires Associés      28    9   7  12    69   75   −6    34
18 Sportverein Hesse         28    8   7  13    38   42   −4    31
19 Slynwell                  28    5  10  13    36   58  −22    25
20 Scavatori di Pozzi        28    4   5  19    32   59  −27    17

Le Championnat

Team Highlight: Savoie Associée
Savoie Associée heads into the second third of the season with a team that has had some time to experiment and find what works best for it, and has also gotten all its players back after some injuries at the beginning of the season. Despite everything coming together on paper, on the field, it still wasn't enough to beat Stomford 1904, but Stomford is a strong team so it's not the end of the world. The big ticket item this week is le classique, the first leg of the annual rivalry between Reçueçn FC and Association Genève. Franky Adams doesn't manage to score against Gerauld Firaut, and Roméo Jacquard and Leroy Topham score a goal each to give Reçueçn the win over Genève. After the match, TV cameras catch Adams and Firaut laughing together before Firaut pulls off his jersey and gives it to his opponent's eight-year-old daughter. The rivalry between Reçueçn FC and Association Genève is the strongest in the country, fiercer than any of the derbies, but after so much time on the équipe nationale together, Adams and Firaut are fast friends.

Two late goals from Auguste Chéreau are more than enough to give Savoie Associée the win over Sportive Annedine, but the game airs the same time as Association Genève's match against Heldingen 1919. Genève may still be bottom of the table, but they have talented players, and the match is a thrilling back and forth affair that ends with an incredible final score of Association Genève four, Heldingen 1919 five. A hat trick from Franky Adams isn't even enough to draw.

Savoie Associée easily defeats Genève Bord-de-Lac, showcasing their teamwork and co-ordination in a textbook game that goes exactly as planned. "This is the kind of game we've been training for all season," says general manager Marc Voyard after the match. "Not to spill all our secrets too much, but when we execute our strategy correctly, that's exactly what it looks like, and I'm very proud of my boys." But when the team goes to take the bus back to Chambéry--normally a ride of less than an hour and a half--a blizzard catches them going through a mountain pass south of Monts Jura. The players are all stranded at the ski resort until the roads can be cleared the next morning, making for quite the adventure.

Savoie Associée faces off against one of the Seven Sisters; this time it's FC Zimmerich, who trounce them three-nil at home. Ly Nasser, who plays for the national team, scores the first two goals, and his teammate (from both international and domestic teams), Robert Chéreau (no relation of Savoie's Auguste Chéreau), scores the third.

It's the halfway point in the season, and there's still everything to play for. The standings are tight, with no large gaps anywhere in the table, although Reçueçn FC does lead by four points. They play host this matchday to Savoie Associée, who are certainly feeling the pressure as they go up against the team that's leading the league, but the underdogs hold out for a one-one tie. Marc Voyard is beaming afterward as he shakes hands with Reçueçn FC manager Robby Hincklebacker. He's clearly very proud of "his boys", and he says as much after the game, to the media, to his players themselves, and to anyone who will listen. The team's goal at the beginning of the season had been "somewhere mid-table", which pundits thought was optimistic. Now Savoie Associée is outperforming even its highest expectations, and only looking for more.

FC Harrim's solid two-zero victory against Baden Heidelberg conincides with both Ville-sur-Rivière and Stomford 1904 dropping points, launching them into second place. Somehow Association Genève is still dead last, but they've been fighting hard to change that--it's they who draw against Ville-sur-Rivière, and when Savoie Associée holds Arly to a draw as well, at least it means they're keeping pace. FC Zimmerich, who were also in the relegation zone at the start of the season, have climbed out of danger for now.

Savoie Associée's game is meant to be played on Friday afternoon, but a strike by the fonctionnaires who work at Chambéry's Mairie leads to a large protest and a march across town that day, culminating in a picket line in front of the stadium. League officials insist that unless Savoie wants to forfeit, the match must be played as scheduled, so despite the club's protests, they play versus Baden Heidelberg in front of an empty stadium. They eke out a one-nothing win, so that Heidelberg can be just as unhappy as they are. Association Genève finally, with a win over FC Harrim to send them back down to fourth, climb out of last place. Genève is still 14th--in the relegation zone--but it's better than last.

The big game this week is Heldingen 1919 against FC Zimmerich, the two largest German-speaking clubs in the nation. There's a decent rivalry there (it depends who you ask), and the match is sometimes called "the German Classique", which says a lot about Francocentrism in Reçueçn and the way its different cultures see each other. Heldingen wins the game three to zero, and it was never in doubt. FC Zimmerich drops down to second-last in le championnat. One point ahead of them, five (5!) teams are on 19 points, all tied for the unenviable position of sharing the last relegation spot (if you ignore tiebreakers, at least). It's getting late enough in the season that teams are starting to look toward the finish line, and the view from here looks a lot better for some clubs than for others.

What!? is happening!

Four of the five teams mentioned last week that were tied with nineteen points lose their games again and remain tied. Baden Heidelberg manages to defeat Col-de-Môse to climb up to 22 points, but FC Zimmerich also draws an insane five-five game against Bonneville Sportif to get one point and join everybody else with 19. Ly Nasser for Zimmerich and Per Tegeler for Bonneville duel it out in a battle of strikers in which each of them scores a hat trick. Savoie Associée does their part as well, defeating Association Genève three to one. Freeman Lebo scores Genève's only goal, and is seen fuming after the goal. It's clear that with each passing week, he grows more and more distressed about Genève's inability to climb out of the bottom of the standings. The Savoie players, on the other hand, are thrilled. Somehow they find themselves in third place in le championnat, only one pointe behind Ville-sur-Rivière. And of course, Reçueçn FC is still away out front, leading by two full games.

The dust has started to settle a bit now at the bottom of the table. Association Genève breathes a sigh of relief, at least temporarily, as a hard-fought win against Sportive Annedine puts them into eleventh. Reçueçn FC has a seven-point lead that they'll be hoping to hang onto for the rest of the season, but things are tightening behind them in the battle for second place. That position of honor is currently, incredibly, somehow held by Savoie Associée, who have overcome tempest, injury, and crisis to far outperform any expectation they ever held for this season and put themselves in strong contention for an IFCF berth. There's still an entire third of the season left to play, so Heldingen can still come back and win the league like they always do, but things are beginning to shape toward a finale here and Savoie is loving life right now.

.                          Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Reçueçn FC              20   13   4   3    21    9  +12    43
 2 Savoie Associée         20   10   6   4    36   26  +10    36
 3 Ville-sur-Rivière       20   10   5   5    36   30   +6    35
 4 Heldingen 1919          20   10   4   6    33   26   +7    34
 5 FC Harrim               20   10   3   7    26   23   +3    33
 6 Stomford 1904           20    9   4   7    33   28   +5    31
 7 Renwyll                 20    9   4   7    43   40   +3    31
 8 Sportive Annedine       20    9   3   8    37   31   +6    30
 9 Bonneville Sportif      20    9   3   8    41   36   +5    30
10 Baden Heidelberg        20    6   4  10    14   19   −5    22
11 Association Genève      20    6   4  10    44   51   −7    22
12 FC Zimmerich            20    4   8   8    35   42   −7    20
13 Col-de-Môse             20    5   5  10    26   34   −8    20
14 Écho SC                 20    5   4  11    12   26  −14    19
15 Arly                    20    4   7   9    29   45  −16    19
16 Genève Bord-de-Lac      20    4   6  10    34   34    0    18

by **Recuecn** » Sun Jan 28, 2024 7:54 am

LNRF Season Eleven Part 3

Le Deuxième Championnat

It took Itrino eighteen weeks to find themselves at the top of le deuxième championnat, but once they'd made it there, they led the league for the rest of the season. They never led by enough to put themselves entirely out of striking range, only finaly cinching the title on the second-to-last matchday when their win over Canton-Ouest made it mathematically impossible for anyone to overtake them, but despite the possibility of a last-minute upset surviving almost until the end, any realistic look at the situation made it clear that they hade the (deuxième!) championship in the bag. Itrino was strong and confident all season long and never suffered any major injuries or setbacks of any other kind, for that matter. After two years in le deuxième championnat, they wll be happy to return to the top tier.

Joining them are FC Hanting and Actwell, two teams that have spend one and three seasons respectively in le deuxième championnat. Actwell's promotion has caught many by surprise; at the start of the season, many expected Tyvania to be the third team moving up when all was said and done. The latter's underperformance will likely mean bad news for general manager Giusto Palermo, who will probably be back on the job hunt now that the season has concluded. The aging manager is sixty-four, so probably ready to retire anyway, but the team's supporters suggested that his age was the reason he was unable to muster a better performance this year.

Assalto Alpino, who briefly and miraculously led the league after the eleventh matchday, lost their good form soon afterward. Their final position was a much less impressive sixteenth, a placement much closer to what the bookies had predicted. Maynard Hebron spraining an ankle around that point in the season and only barely recovering before the the last few games likely played a major role in the collapse.

And of course, Scavatori di Pozzi, last but not least, at least not least in our hearts, but definitely least as in "least good at soccer." It's not really a surprise anymore for the team to finish last every season--the LNRF is very idiosyncratic, and two of its idiosyncrasies come together in Scavatori di Pozzi. For one thing, the team was an amateur side before the LNRF was drawn up, and somehow managed to get itself included with the other professional and semi-pro teams. With the added attention from being in the LNRF the team earned enough revenue to handle the transition to being a professional squad, but the money for new talent still isn't there. For another thing, although there is promotion and relegation between the two professional leagues of Reçuecian soccer, there is no path for the semi-pro and amateur teams who still play at a lower level to eventually earn promotion to the top. The corollary of this point is that there's not a way down for any teams in the top two leagues who aren't quite of the same caliber of the other teams, and a team like Scavatori di Pozzi, comparatively underpowered, may find itself at the bottom of the heap year after year. This has been the fourth last-place finish for the team, but hey! Maybe next year will be different...

.                           Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Itrino                    38   21  11   6    78   53  +25    74	Promotion, LBCT
 2 FC Hanting                38   20  11   7    72   45  +27    71	Promotion, LBCT
 3 Actwell                   38   19   8  11    83   73  +10    65	Promotion, LBCT
 4 FC Hamwich 89             38   15  14   9    57   51   +6    59
 5 Tyvania                   38   15  13  10    56   45  +11    58
 6 Boruncia                  38   15  12  11    82   77   +5    57
 7 Canton-Ouest              38   16   8  14    83   76   +7    56
 8 Sportclub St. Karl        38   15  11  12    80   75   +5    56
 9 ASC Renting               38   14  13  11    65   61   +4    55
10 Hôtel Chapelle-Pré        38   15   9  14    77   73   +4    54
11 Canting-Aexwell           38   14  11  13    81   75   +6    53
12 Lampadaires Associés      38   14  10  14    93   94   −1    52
13 Cinizio                   38   13  11  14    72   78   −6    50
14 Ramton                    38   13  10  15    70   72   −2    49
15 Les Raptors               38   13   8  17    57   69  −12    47
16 Assalto Alpino            38   11  12  15    88   89   −1    45
17 FC Hoping                 38   12   7  19    89   98   −9    43
18 Sportverein Hesse         38   10   9  19    44   58  −14    39
19 Slynwell                  38    6  13  19    44   73  −29    31
20 Scavatori di Pozzi        38    5   7  26    48   84  −36    22

Le Championnat

Team Highlight: Savoie Associée
We've chosen Savoie Associée as our protagonist of sorts to follow along with this season, and our plucky heroes are somehow defying the odds to hang onto second place in le championnat as we head into Matchday 21. The names of the teams around them on the table are those of past LNRF champions: Reçueçn FC, Ville-sur-Rivière, and Heldingen 1919. This time, Savoie Associée manages a two-one victory over Col-de-Môse to stay ahead of Heldingen 1919, hot on their heels with a win of their own against Baden Heidelberg.

Savoie wins again! And what feels even more important for the club--Heldingen loses! Cirillo Vrtilek puts two goals past Jannick Bechtholdt for FC Harrim, and Heldingen simply can't find an answer. Reçueçn FC now has a five-point lead over second place, while Savoie Associée has another five points over third--if they both can maintain their current form, things are looking good enough for them that the real question at the end of the season will be "who gets the other Challengers' Cup slots". And also, "who is going to be relegated?" It's the race at the tail-end of the table that is actually the most excited, with FC Zimmerich still fighting for its life and six teams within three points (up or down) of the relegation cutoff.

Savoie Associée comes face to face with Heldingen 1919 themselves this weekend, and Heldingen shows why they're the better team with a couple of goals from Helibert Wolf. But even that isn't enough for Heldingen to catch Savoie, although it gets them a lot closer. A win by FC Zimmerich over Genève Bord-de-Lac gets them out of the relegation danger zone, for now--and just barely.

It's Genève Bord-de-Lac with the upset this week, stunning Reçueçn FC with a two-one victory. In two matchdays, Heldingen 1919 has cut Reçueçn FC's 10-point lead over them in two, although Savoie Associée still hold a spot inbetween them. Manager Marc Voyard doesn't make it to the game, saying he feels sick, but the team puts on a solid performance without him in an exciting game against Bonneville Sportif. Seven goals are scored in all, 4-3 for Savoie, demonstrating that although they've definitely learned how to score, they still need to learn to defend better, too.

Savoie Associée's 3-2 defeat by Ville-sur-Rivière allows the latter to catch up to them, and Heldingen 1919 to surpass them. Even if it's just by a little, it's enough to mark what feels like the end of a beautiful daydream. None of the Savoie players expected to get this far. They'd figured a mid-table finish would be their lot, and it's still highly possible that it will be. But their time in the second spot in the league has hopefully shown them that if they set their goals high, they can achieve more than they dream of.

Of course, the whole reason that we talk about the battle for second place like it's some great honor, is because Reçueçn FC seems to be far and away the best team this season, without a doubt. They've never been in trouble, and have hardly struggled in any of their games. Dominant performance on the pitch reminds everyone that they the largest fanbase in the nation, and all those fans are jumping on the bandwagon right now, now that the team is doing so well. The game this weekend is for them, the biggest game of the season. It's the return leg of "le classique," that perennial rivalry between Reçueçn City and Genève. Earlier this year, it was Reçueçn FC for the win, but this time, the two sides play out a hotly-contested draw in which each side scores two goals. Van Kubiak and Franky Adams each score for Genève, with Bertrand Bonnay and Enzo Simon finding the back of the net for Reçueçn. The sold-out crowd is disapointed to to see Reçueçn FC win, but hey, at least it was a good game.

Just three matchdays left in the season, and Savoie Associée is still hanging onto an IFCF berth. There's four of those for le championnat, and maybe half a dozen teams realistically still in contention, although Ville-sur-Rivière and Renwyll have to catch up quick if they want to stay in the running. At the tail end of the table, there's also probably about a half-dozen teams worred (or at this point, anticipating) relegation. It's still FC Zimmerich and Association Genève who are, albeit clear of the relegaion zone by a tiny margin, in a lot of danger. A couple wins at the end of the season will go a long way for them--but a lot of teams feel that way.

Well, it's settled. Reçueçn FC runs roughshod over Baden Heidelberg, as they have over so many other teams this season, and when Heldingen 1919 loses a 5-3 barn burner to Bonneville Sportif, it seals their fate. There's no way to catch Reçueçn FC now. Only 1 point separates the rest of the teams currently in the IFCF slots, so they might all hang onto them, even Savoie Associée, but a lot can happen in two games! So we'll see.

Just one game left! Savoie Associée has earned a Challengers' Cup spot unless two out of Ville-sur-Rivière, Renwyll, or Stomford 1904 manage to pass them. Somehow they did it, even after a slow start to the season, and totally outperformed all their own expectations. Meanwhile, Association Genève is only one point away from relegation--can they hang on just one more game?
[spoiler=MD 30]It turns out that Association Genève's opponent on the last day is currently last place and alredy doomed to relegation, factors which don't inspire much courage or effort. One goal from Franky Adams is enough to keep Geneève in le championnat another season. Savoie Associée, on the other hand, have to play the best team in the league--Reçueçn FC.

It does not go well. Linus Feulner gets a yellow card for a brazen tackle only seven minutes in, and when he gives up a penalty eighteen minutes later, it comes with a second yellow which sees him sent off. Lukas Kayserling comes up to take the penalty, the first of three goals for Reçueçn in the game. Withoug Feulner, everything falls apart for Savoie Associée. Nothing is happening in the midfield, which means that Savoie's weaknes--its defense--is now cut off from all its strong players up on the offensive line. The club can still retain an IFCF berth, though, as long as two teams below it don't it on points.

Only Renwyll passes Savoie Associée on points--and yet they are still beaten out. Stomford 1904 pulls out a miraculous win against the typically mighty Heldingen 1919 team, which isn't enough to kick Heldingen out of second place, but is enough to give Stomford exactly the same number of points that Savoie Associée has, letting Stomford win on goal differential. Even Ville-Sur-Rivière draws its game to join the tie at 50 points, although Savoie has them beaten on goal differential by a single goal.

Marc Voyard gives one last speech to his team at the end of the season, but the players are too disillusioned to listen. His pleas fall on deaf ears. "Boys, we played a great season and did far better than we thought we would. Please don't beat yourselves up over the way it ended. What we've learned is that if we can connect and work together, we can do great things."

The last statement is a true one. But whether Savoie Associée can in fact work together is another matter entirely.

.                         Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Reçueçn FC              30   18   7   5    39   20  +19    61		IFCF Champions' League, FFI League of Victors
 2 Heldingen 1919          30   16   5   9    49   42   +7    53		IFCF Challengers' Cup, FFI League of Victors
 3 Renwyll                 30   15   6   9    67   57  +10    51		IFCF Challengers' Cup, FFI Confederations' Trophy
 4 Stomford 1904           30   15   5  10    55   41  +14    50		IFCF Challengers' Cup
 5 Savoie Associée         30   14   8   8    57   49   +8    50
 6 Ville-sur-Rivière       30   14   8   8    51   44   +7    50
 7 Bonneville Sportif      30   14   4  12    62   55   +7    46
 8 FC Harrim               30   13   6  11    37   33   +4    45
 9 Sportive Annedine       30   12   5  13    50   48   +2    41
10 Arly                    30    9   9  12    42   58  −16    36
11 Genève Bord-de-Lac      30    9   8  13    47   45   +2    35
12 FC Zimmerich            30    8  11  11    62   67   −5    35
13 Association Genève      30    8   8  14    59   73  −14    32
14 Col-de-Môse             30    8   6  16    47   61  −14    30		Relegation
15 Écho SC                 30    7   7  16    23   39  −16    28		Relegation
16 Baden Heidelberg        30    6   5  19    17   32  −15    23		Relegation

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